
Knife Edge
the gripping Sunday Times bestseller
Simon Mayo(Author)
Doubleday (Publisher)
Published on 20. August 2020
Book
Hardback
432 pages
978-0-85752-659-5 (ISBN)
Description
The Sunday Times top ten bestseller
'The best kind of thriller - step by all-too-plausible step we're sucked into frantic, breathless action ... Perfect." LEE CHILD
You never know where danger may come from...
6.45am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 29 minutes, seven people have been murdered.
In a series of coordinated attacks, seven men and women across London have been targeted. For journalist Famie Madden, the horror unfolds as she arrives for the morning shift.
The victims have one thing in common: they make up the investigations team at the news agency where Famie works. The question everyone's asking: what were they working on that could prompt such brutal devastation?
As Famie starts to receive mysterious messages, she must find out whether she is being warned of the next attack, or being told that she will be the next victim...
'The best kind of thriller - step by all-too-plausible step we're sucked into frantic, breathless action ... Perfect." LEE CHILD
You never know where danger may come from...
6.45am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 29 minutes, seven people have been murdered.
In a series of coordinated attacks, seven men and women across London have been targeted. For journalist Famie Madden, the horror unfolds as she arrives for the morning shift.
The victims have one thing in common: they make up the investigations team at the news agency where Famie works. The question everyone's asking: what were they working on that could prompt such brutal devastation?
As Famie starts to receive mysterious messages, she must find out whether she is being warned of the next attack, or being told that she will be the next victim...
Reviews / Votes
'The best kind of thriller - step by all-too-plausible step we're sucked into frantic, breathless action ... Perfect." * Lee Child * Mayo proves unfailingly good at dialogue...an overwhelming powerful spell Knife Edge casts while you're reading it * Reader's Digest * Simon Mayo is clearly a force to be reckoned with in the thriller world ... Smart and tense [with] some highly ingenious twists * The Times * Another gripping read ... you'll be on a knife edge * Sunday Express * Tense, taut and splendidly twisty * Heat *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-85752-659-5 (9780857526595)
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E-Book
08/2020
1st Edition
Transworld Digital
€8.99
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Person
Simon Mayo is a writer and broadcaster. He is the presenter of the podcast Simon Mayo's Books of the Year, a daily host on Scala Radio and co-presenter of Kermode and Mayo's Film Review for the BBC. His previous books include Mad Blood Stirring, Blame and the Itch trilogy, filmed for TV by ABC.
Knife Edge is his debut contemporary thriller.
Knife Edge is his debut contemporary thriller.