‘Starts off like a fired bullet and never lets up’ David Baldacci
‘A terrific future-shock thriller full of pace, tension, character, and emotion’ Lee Child
‘Slick and fast-paced… Do yourself a favour and buy this book!’ LJ Ross
Michael North is running out of time. This mission may finish him for good.
When visionary tech genius Tobias Hawke is found brutally murdered in his own lab, the world’s most dangerous secret dies with him.
Hawke’s final creation, Syd, is an artificial intelligence that doesn’t just pattern-match, but thinks for itself. Capable of learning, reasoning, and evolving, it promised to change humanity forever. In the wake of Hawke’s death, Syd has triggered an emergency shutdown, locking away everything she knows.
There’s only one man who can uncover what Syd is hiding.
Pulled back into the covert government world of dark ops he thought he’d left behind, Michael North must identify Hawke’s killer and extract the truth buried inside Syd. But as the clock ticks down and powerful interests close in, North realises this isn’t just a murder investigation. It’s a race to stop the wrong people gaining control of a technology that could reshape the world.
Fast-paced, explosive and intelligent, Curse the Day is perfect for fans of the relentless action and morally complex heroes of David Baldacci, Lee Child, Stephen Leather and Mark Dawson.
Readers and reviewers love Jude O’Reilly:
‘Thought-provoking, pacy and thrilling’ Sunday Mirror
‘A nail biting, high-octane thriller’ The Sun
‘A high-octane plot about the dark heart of British political power’ Sunday Times
‘Fast-paced and packed with action’ Mick Herron
‘A gritty, action-packed, page-turner’ Andy McNab
Jude O’Reilly is the author of three action thrillers. Her latest book Sleep When You’re Dead was an FT Best Book of the Year. Lee Child has described her writing as ‘terrific’and David Baldacci as ‘a sheer delight’. Her thrillers, which also include Killing State and Curse the Day, track the adventures of all action hero Michael North, a young, sexy, reckless British government agent who has been dubbed the modern Bond.
Using the pen name Judith O'Reilly (see what she did there), Jude has also written two memoirs, Wife in the North and A Year of Doing Good. Wife in the North reached number three in the UK bestsellers’ chart and was a top ten bestseller in Germany. It was serialised by The Sunday Times and the Daily Telegraph, was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and was based on Jude’s eponymous blog which, at the time, was named as one of the top 100 blogs in the world by The Sunday Times.
Jude is an award winning short story writer whose latest book is an anthology of crime short stories called In Our Crime. She is also a former political producer with BBC 2’s Newsnight and ITN’s Channel 4 News. She’s a former education correspondent with The Sunday Times where she also covered politics, undercover reporting and general news. She lives in Durham with her family and a miniature poodle called Joey.
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