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  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784164744
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.00

Knife Edge




From one of our best-loved radio presenters comes a race-against-time, ST top ten bestselling thriller, chillingly resonant with today's headlines.

'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 27 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...

  • Published: 2 July 2021
  • ISBN: 9781784164744
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.00

About the author

Malorie Blackman

Malorie Blackman has written over seventy books for children and young adults, including the Noughts & Crosses series, Thief and a science-fiction thriller, Chasing the Stars. Many of her books have also been adapted for stage and television, including a BAFTA-award-winning BBC production of Pig-Heart Boy and a Pilot Theatre stage adaptation by Sabrina Mahfouz of Noughts & Crosses. There is also a major BBC production of Noughts & Crosses, with Roc Nation (Jay-Z’s entertainment company) curating the soundtrack as executive music producer. In 2005 Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children’s books. In 2008 she received an OBE for her services to children’s literature, and between 2013 and 2015 she was the Children’s Laureate. Most recently Malorie wrote for the Doctor Who series on BBC One, and the fifth novel in her Noughts & Crosses series, Crossfire, was published by Penguin Random House Children’s in summer 2019.

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Praise for Knife Edge

'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

A hard-hitting thriller

Saga

A gripping - and decidedly dark - debut thriller

Daily Express

Interwoven storylines, heartfelt characters and authentic dialogue

Closer

A gut-churningly intense and exciting read

Sunday Express

Brilliant

Jack Thorne

A cracking thriller

Bella

An edge-of-your-seat thriller

Yours

Remarkably hard hitting and surprising...It's quite a ride. A tough, exciting read

Anthony Horowitz

From the gripping opening to the dramatic conclusion, short chapters keep the tension taut and the pages

Choice

Suspenseful, chilling and disturbingly pertinent to modern times, Knife Edge packs a serious punch.

CultureFly