Overview
Tomorrow's most explosive thriller, today Cynthia Wright is a rising star in American politics, strongly tipped as a future candidate for president. One night she is violently assaulted in her home by an intruder. She defends herself and minutes later, the intruder lies dead. Wright is hailed as a #MeToo heroine: the woman who fought back. But inconsistencies emerge in Wright's story, suggesting that the attack might not have been as random as it first seemed. When former White House troubleshooter Maggie Costello is drafted in to investigate, she finds intriguing gaps, especially over Wright's early life. She likes this woman, who she believes could - and should - be president. But she can't shake off the question: who exactly is Cynthia Wright? A cat-and-mouse conspiracy thriller of rare intelligence, TO KILL A MAN explores an unsettling world in which justice is in the eye of the beholder and revenge seems to be the only answer.
Full Product Details
Author: Sam Bourne
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Imprint: Quercus Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 15.40cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.560kg
ISBN: 9781787474970
ISBN 10: 1787474976
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 19 March 2020
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
A Day of the Jackal for these dizzying times - Ian Rankin In To Kill the Truth, Maggie Costello rivetingly tackles a cabal of Holocaust and slavery deniers, whose aim is nothing less than to destroy memory - Sunday Times Urgently topical - The Times A propulsive plot and an appealing heroine . . . The premise is both intriguing and, in the current climate of post-truth, fake news and sour populism, grimly topical - Guardian Read this book - Jeffrey Archer Chilling . . . You think today's news is nightmarish enough? Sam Bourne's provocative thriller imagines things getting much, much worse - Mail on Sunday A dazzling thriller - Charles Cumming, author of The Man Between Bourne's writing is chillingly plausible... Read it while it's still fiction - James Swallow, author of Nomad and Exile
Author Information
Sam Bourne is the pseudonym of award-winning journalist and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland, who writes a weekly column for the Guardian and is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's contemporary history series, The Long View. He served for four years as the Guardian's Washington correspondent, covered the 2016 US election campaign, and is covering the 2020 campaign. He is a widely respected commentator on American affairs. His previous seven internationally bestselling novels have sold over two million copies and been published in over thirty languages.
