“Master of the intelligent thriller.” —The Times (UK)
 
“It should be enough that Robert Harris, in his earlier books, makes the lives of Cicero and Caesar even more fascinating, and brings to vivid life the citizens of ancient Rome and 1930s Munich. With The Second Sleep he cracks open The Time To Come, making his new book a barnburner, leaving the reader wanting only one thing: more, please.” —Tom Hanks
 
“In the tradition of A Canticle for Leibowitz, Harris presents an extraordinary and terrifyingly plausible vision of a post-technological future, a novel that’s at once an adventure story and a meditation on truth and faith. You’ll never look at your iPhone in quite the same way again.” —Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel and Station Eleven
 
“Stunning new thriller. . . . Surprises to the very end. . . . A highly inventive piece of dystopian fiction.” —National Post
 
“Harris is an experienced storyteller and he builds the mystery of what’s buried underneath the Devil’s Chair nicely. There is also an implicit critique of the fragility of our own civilization in the proceedings.” —Toronto Star
 
“Robert Harris is the master of intelligent and surprising narrative. The Second Sleep begins with a nice piece of conjuring deception. It puts the question: what if the technology we rely on died on us? The answer is as persuasive as it is fascinating.” —The Scotsman
 
“[Harris] takes us on a thrilling ride while serving up serious food for thought. . . . I doubt there is a living writer who is better at simultaneously making readers’ adrenaline pump while their brains whirr.” —Sunday Express (UK)
 
“Harris’ latest work intelligently warps historical fiction and tackles issues of religion, science and the apocalypse in the process. As he flexes his imagination, you will be left pondering as often as you are page-turning.” —The Herald (Scotland)
 
“A brilliantly imaginative thriller.” —Reader’s Digest
 
“Harris has contrived to do something rather brilliant and new. He has put us at the heart of the mystery. . . . The reader is left with at least as many questions as answers, and most of those questions are directed at ourselves.” —The Guardian
 
“The book’s real power lies in its between-the-lines warning that our embrace of the internet represents some kind of sleepwalk into oblivion. It’s a provocative, tub-thumping sci-fi of which H. G. Wells might have been proud.” —Daily Mail (UK)
 
“Harris is rightly praised as the master of the intelligent thriller. . . . He creates a world teetering between a second dark age and another industrial revolution, peopled by characters drawn with a Dickensian confidence. Genuinely thrilling, wonderfully conceived and entirely without preaching, it probes the nature of history, of collective memory and forgetting, and exposes the fragility of modern civilization.” —The Telegraph (UK)