Curse the Day
A gripping techno spy thriller for fans of Lee Child
Published on 7. January 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
432 pages
978-1-78854-896-0 (ISBN)
Description
'Starts off like a fired bullet and never lets up. A sheer delight' DAVID BALDACCI
Michael North is a dead man walking.
Can he survive long enough to uncover the truth?
Tobias Hawke was the tech genius on the brink of an astonishing breakthrough in the field of Artificial Intelligence. His creation, 'Syd', a device that mimics human thought, promised to change the face of humanity forever.
Now Hawke's body has been found in his lab - brutally murdered. And in the wake of her creator's death, Syd has gone into emergency shutdown procedure.
There's only one man to uncover what secrets she's hiding and find the killer: Michael North - ex-assassin, spy-for-hire, and racing against the clock to survive the bullet lodged in his brain.
Can he save himself and humanity in time?
Perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Lee Child and Mark Dawson, Curse the Day is an action-packed spy thriller from a Sunday Times bestselling author.
REVIEWS FOR CURSE THE DAY:
'A slick, fast-paced thriller from a master storyteller... Do yourself a favour and buy this book!' LJ Ross
'A rip-roaring road trip into the dark heart of a corrupt, cynical British establishment' Financial Times
'With a plot Fleming or Forsyth would be proud of and a hero to rival Jack Reacher, Curse the Day just might be the Thriller of the Year' Howard Linksey
'Relentlessly plotted with a blistering pace, Curse the Day is a sharply drawn, gleefully witty conspiracy thriller. Tackling tomorrow's nightmare today, this is a superb novel' M.W. Craven
'A brilliant technothriller that reads like a Bond movie, complete with terrific action sequences, memorable characters, and the fate of the world at stake... The pace never lets up and the story stays with you long after the final page' Zoe Sharp
'Packed with no-holds-barred action and memorable characters. It's a blast!' James Swallow
PRAISE FOR JUDE O'REILLY:
'A terrific future-shock thriller full of pace, tension, character, and emotion' Lee Child
'Fast-paced and packed with action' Mick Herron
'A high-octane plot that centres around the dark heart of British political power' Sunday Times
'Thought-provoking, pacy and thrilling' Sunday Mirror
'A gritty, action-packed, page-turner' Andy McNab
'New thriller writers come and go. I suspect this lady will stick around' Frederick Forsyth
'A constantly surprising, heart-felt, desperately exciting super-thriller - and a truly standout action-adventure novel... Left me both smiling and breathless' Rob Parker
Michael North is a dead man walking.
Can he survive long enough to uncover the truth?
Tobias Hawke was the tech genius on the brink of an astonishing breakthrough in the field of Artificial Intelligence. His creation, 'Syd', a device that mimics human thought, promised to change the face of humanity forever.
Now Hawke's body has been found in his lab - brutally murdered. And in the wake of her creator's death, Syd has gone into emergency shutdown procedure.
There's only one man to uncover what secrets she's hiding and find the killer: Michael North - ex-assassin, spy-for-hire, and racing against the clock to survive the bullet lodged in his brain.
Can he save himself and humanity in time?
Perfect for fans of David Baldacci, Lee Child and Mark Dawson, Curse the Day is an action-packed spy thriller from a Sunday Times bestselling author.
REVIEWS FOR CURSE THE DAY:
'A slick, fast-paced thriller from a master storyteller... Do yourself a favour and buy this book!' LJ Ross
'A rip-roaring road trip into the dark heart of a corrupt, cynical British establishment' Financial Times
'With a plot Fleming or Forsyth would be proud of and a hero to rival Jack Reacher, Curse the Day just might be the Thriller of the Year' Howard Linksey
'Relentlessly plotted with a blistering pace, Curse the Day is a sharply drawn, gleefully witty conspiracy thriller. Tackling tomorrow's nightmare today, this is a superb novel' M.W. Craven
'A brilliant technothriller that reads like a Bond movie, complete with terrific action sequences, memorable characters, and the fate of the world at stake... The pace never lets up and the story stays with you long after the final page' Zoe Sharp
'Packed with no-holds-barred action and memorable characters. It's a blast!' James Swallow
PRAISE FOR JUDE O'REILLY:
'A terrific future-shock thriller full of pace, tension, character, and emotion' Lee Child
'Fast-paced and packed with action' Mick Herron
'A high-octane plot that centres around the dark heart of British political power' Sunday Times
'Thought-provoking, pacy and thrilling' Sunday Mirror
'A gritty, action-packed, page-turner' Andy McNab
'New thriller writers come and go. I suspect this lady will stick around' Frederick Forsyth
'A constantly surprising, heart-felt, desperately exciting super-thriller - and a truly standout action-adventure novel... Left me both smiling and breathless' Rob Parker
Reviews / Votes
Judith O'Reilly, a veteran former journalist, delivers Tarantino-esque carnage from the get-go... Curse the Day is a rip-roaring road trip into the dark heart of a corrupt, cynical British establishment' * Financial Times * O'Reilly has delivered a fast-paced and action-packed thriller that will have been * Shots eZine * Packed with no-holds-barred action and memorable characters. It's a blast! -- James Swallow Judith O'Reilly is a masterful storyteller. In Curse the Day she's woven a slick, fast-paced thriller brimming with compelling characters. Do yourself a favour and buy this book! -- LJ Ross Relentlessly plotted with a blistering pace, Curse the Day is a sharply drawn, gleefully witty conspiracy thriller. Tackling tomorrow's nightmare today, this is a superb novel -- MW Craven A brilliant technothriller that reads like a Bond movie, complete with terrific action sequences, memorable characters, and the fate of the world at stake. But one that also touches on a genuine reason for all of us to worry about the intelligent tech we're letting into our lives. I could not put this book down, from the opening that completely reverses all expectations to the cracking climax. The pace never lets up and the story stays with you long after the final page. Highly recommended -- Zoe Sharp, author of the Charlie Fox series A constantly surprising, heart-felt, desperately exciting super-thriller - and a truly standout action-adventure novel... Left me both smiling and breathless' -- Rob Parker The action adventure genre is a 'male-dominated' world but a female author is taking the fight to the grandmasters of escapist fiction * Yorkshire Evening Post * An out-and-out thriller with a hint of science fiction in that it centres round an AI (Artificial Intelligence). I enjoy a good thriller and this one hit the mark - difficult to put down * Concatenation *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Dimensions
Height: 200 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
301 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78854-896-0 (9781788548960)
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E-Book
04/2020
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Person
Jude O'Reilly is the author of Wife in the North, a top-three Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and The Year of Doing Good. Jude is a former senior journalist with the Sunday Times and a former political producer with BBC 2's Newsnight and ITN's Channel 4 News. Her Michael North series has been praised by bestselling thriller writers around the globe.