Killing It
An addictive thriller with a heroine to kill for...
Published on 16. January 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-78512-683-3 (ISBN)
Description
'Original' Clare Mackintosh
'Will keep you gripped . . . and rooting for a rather wonderful heroine' Sunday Mirror
'James Bond should retire now . . . puts the sass in assassin as it's never been done before' L. S. Hilton
***
'Adroitly combines social and parenting comedy with detail-rich derring-do' Sunday Times
Lex Tyler is a covert operative for Platform Eight, the assassination department of Her Majesty's Secret Service, and one of the very few women to successfully negotiate the old boy's network of the espionage world.
Like her colleagues, she's smart, resourceful and very deadly - but unlike them, she's also got to juggle nappies, night feeds and keeping her deadly career under wraps from her husband.
Lex's latest assignment is Russian oligarch, Dmitri Tupolev, and the stakes could not be higher. But the more she digs into his life, the more Lex wonders if there isn't a different game going on - and one that might be about to cost her everything she's got.
Liked Killing It? Follow Lex Tyler's next adventure in The Nursery.
'Will keep you gripped . . . and rooting for a rather wonderful heroine' Sunday Mirror
'James Bond should retire now . . . puts the sass in assassin as it's never been done before' L. S. Hilton
***
'Adroitly combines social and parenting comedy with detail-rich derring-do' Sunday Times
Lex Tyler is a covert operative for Platform Eight, the assassination department of Her Majesty's Secret Service, and one of the very few women to successfully negotiate the old boy's network of the espionage world.
Like her colleagues, she's smart, resourceful and very deadly - but unlike them, she's also got to juggle nappies, night feeds and keeping her deadly career under wraps from her husband.
Lex's latest assignment is Russian oligarch, Dmitri Tupolev, and the stakes could not be higher. But the more she digs into his life, the more Lex wonders if there isn't a different game going on - and one that might be about to cost her everything she's got.
Liked Killing It? Follow Lex Tyler's next adventure in The Nursery.
Reviews / Votes
'Original' - Clare Mackintosh'Will keep you gripped . . . and rooting for a rather wonderful heroine' - Sunday Mirror
'James Bond should retire now . . . puts the sass in assassin as it's never been done before' - L. S. Hilton
'Adroitly combines social and parenting comedy with detail-rich derring-do' - Sunday Times
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bonnier Books Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 128 mm
Width: 198 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
284 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78512-683-3 (9781785126833)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Asia Mackay is a Chinese Scottish author and mother of four based in London. Asia studied Anthropology at Durham University, after which she started a career in television. She presented and produced lifestyle programmes in Shanghai before moving back to London, where she worked for Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman as Project Manager on their round the world motorbike documentaries. Killing It, her debut novel, was the First Runner Up in Richard and Judy's Search for a Bestseller competition and First Runner Up for the Comedy Women In Print prize.