Peter Millar Books In Order

Novels

Stealing Thunder (1999)
Bleak Midwinter (2001)
The Black Madonna (2010)
The Shameful Suicide of Winston Churchill (2011)
Slow Train to Guantanamo (2013)
Marrakech Express (2014)

Non fiction

Tomorrow Belongs to Me (1992)
All Gone to Look for America (2009)
1989 The Berlin Wall (2009)
The Germans and Europe (2017)

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Stealing Thunder

Stealing Thunder presents a thrillingly suspenseful alternative history. Set against the backdrop of the actual events that took place at Los Alamos during the development of the atomic bomb, Stealing Thunder gives voice to real characters such as Robert Oppenheimer, Nils Bohr, and the convicted traitor, Klaus Fuchs. The action moves from 1944 to present day and from the New Mexico desert to Boston, London, Berlin, Moscow and a remote farm in Iceland where horses are dying from a mysterious disease. Cynical, twice divorced journalist John Burke is led by a young, attractive German counterpart, Sabine Kotschke, to investigate what could be the big story he has been seeking all his professional life. Amid plot and counterplot, with the White House and the Kremlin hurrying to impede their progress, Burke and Kotschke negotiate a maze of conflicting information and sinister threats that leads back to Los Alamos and the men who made the atom bomb. In a gripping finale, Burke finds himself reas*sessing those legendary nuclear physicists which, if any, were really traitors? And the beautiful, self confident Sabine to whom he has grown so close is she really just a journalist after a good story, or does she have other intentions?

Bleak Midwinter

In an Oxford hospital, intern Rajiv Mahendra encounters a patient with rare symptoms that are disturbingly familiar. In India, the disease is known as bubonic plague. The last time it occurred on a large scale in Europe, it was known as the Black Death, killing nearly a third of the population. Driven by morbid curiosity, history student Daniel Warren slips into the hospital to see the patient, where he is discovered by a reporter from a local newspaper. In a misguided attempt to keep her quiet, Warren reveals that the patient had been working on a building site that was once an old plague pit. Could this long dormant scourge have been reawakened? It seems impossible, but is it?

All Gone to Look for America

In this unique mixture of memoir and travelogue portrayed through sharp and vivid narrative, a man sets out to rediscover the United States by following the ravaged last traces of the railroad. Armed with only a shoestring budget, his favorite tunes, a backpack, and an open mind, Peter Millar crossed the country two and a half times in hopes of discovering the quintessential American experience from the people to the music to the beer selection all the while watching the vast American landscape unfold in slow motion around him. In the tradition of Bill Bryson and Paul Theroux, this witty and observant account presents a fun and educational journey across the United States characterized by powerful descriptions, intelligent humor, and undeniable humanity.

1989 The Berlin Wall

‘My wife sat at home in floods of tears, in front of the television, the uncomprehending toddlers tugging at her, asking ‘Mummy, what’s wrong?’. If they’d only known: I was hanging out on a busy street corner trying to coax three 19 year old waitresses into a taxi to take them to the biggest party the world had seen in four decades. All over the planet people were celebrating but the predominant thing on my mind was, ‘Damn, all this is happening 24 hours too early’. The night was November 9th 1989, and the Berlin Wall was coming down. For perhaps the first time in a century the world was empathising with the Germans. Nobody had known it would. Least of all the intelligence agencies of the West, caught napping on the eve of their greatest ‘victory’ as they would be again on September 9th, 2001, their greatest embarrassment. But then not even the men who gave the orders in east Berlin knew it would happen. Not even as they gave them. The fall of the Berlin Wall was the triumphant vindication of the ‘cock up’ theory of history.