'A futuristic story of fear, suspense and
a dash of sex ... stylishly and
entertainingly done . clever and eminently readable Roberts'
wit sparkles.'
Matthew Parris The Sunday
Times
'This certainly thrills. I had difficulty
in retrieving my review copy from several visitors who 'couldn't
put it down.'
Peter Lilley The Literary
Review
'There is a good joke and a serious message
on almost every page of this controversial new thriller...
It is a tribute to his imaginative powers that Roberts has
eschewed zealotry and written an entertaining thriller and
an unremittingly funny book.'
Dominic Hobson The Catholic
Herald
'Roberts the novelist has been allowed to
canter the course and the result is a sustained polemic.'
Douglas Hurd The Times
'It is witty, satirical and fun, but it
also carries a serious message... Employing the technique
of a classic whodunnit, complete with a dead body in the first
sentence, Roberts has written a cliff-hanger which keeps the
reader guessing until the very end.'
Lady Annabel Goldsmith
The Spectator
'This is Andrew Roberts' first novel and.
rather as though one has stumbled on a murder mystery by Thomas
Carlyle or a Derrida Reader edited by Lord Archer, it is surprising
to find he has done it all. But I am glad he did.'
John Patten The Sunday
Telegraph
'This is a gripping novel about the European
superstate... Fast-moving and ingenious... This is required
reading for all those who like their facts served up as fiction...
Double value - a thriller worthy of Le Carre and an historical
analysis worthy of Trevor-Roper.'
Bill Cash The Mail on
Sunday
'Andrew Roberts has turned his nightmare
vision of a Britain under the yoke of a federal Europe superstate
into a cracking thriller... 'The Aachen Memorandum' is a rattling
good yarn which would make an entertaining movie or mini-series.'
Richard Littlejohn The
Daily Mail
'Roberts' courageous protagonist is adorably
vulnerable, chubby and asthmatic - but naturally overpoweringly
attractive to certain beautiful women.'
Peter Bradshaw The
Evening Standard
''The Aachen Memorandum' is not so much
a parable warning against the dangers of a technological police
state as a pamphlet aimed at two much more topical targets;
political correctness and European federation.'
Gerald Kaufman The Daily
Telegraph
'Here we have the first Tory Euro-phobic
thriller about 'identity' - British identity, crushed by a
future United States of Europe...'
Ian Buruma The Obsever
'The narrative sweeps along to a surprising
and exciting climax.'
Merrie Cave Salisbury
Review
'The BBC should turn 'The Aachen Memorandum'
into a mini-series.'
Garry Bushell The Sun
'There is deceit and counter-deceit, sex
and drugs (both in moderation...) and lots and lots of B-team
fogeyism.'
John Turner The Times
Literary Supplement
'Mr Andrew Roberts, the distinguished historian,
recently wrote a novel, set in the next century, called The
Aachen Memorandum, in which he described a situation in which
civil unrest started in this country when the people found
that they were unable to change the laws of this country in
their own interests . I believe it is a warning.'
Rt Hon Norman Lamont, Hansard,
House of Commons, 21st March 1996
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