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  • Published: 25 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241659748
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $49.99
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Terminally Kill





A brilliantly funny and unique story that will keep you turning the page from the beloved TV presenter, Steve Jones . . .

Ray might be about to die. But he’s sure as hell not going quietly …

Former policeman Ray ‘Sugar’ Leonard is no stranger to bad breaks. But even Walter White never had to open up and share his feelings with a bunch of misfits like Ray’s chemotherapy group: a giant God-bothering Welsh bouncer, a sharp-suited wannabe Wolf of Wall Street, and a misanthropic, potty-mouthed little old lady. Compared to that lot, getting mugged on his way home from the clinic was almost a relief.

But Ray is not your average victim. And when his training kicks in and his would-be attacker winds up dead, he wonders, who else might be equally deserving of such summary justice? After all, he’s got cancer, what’s he got to lose?

Then Ray lets slip his new philosophy to the group and it soon becomes clear that he’s not the only one with murder in mind …

  • Published: 25 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241659748
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $49.99
Categories:

About the author

Steve Jones

Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College London and has worked at universities in the USA, Australia and Africa. He gave the BBC Reith Lectures in 1991, and presented a successful BBC TV series on human genetics and evolution in 1996. He is a regular columnist for the Daily Telegraph and frequently appears on radio and television. His previous books include The Language of the Genes (which won the 1994 Rhône-Poulenc Science Book Prize) and In the Blood (shortlisted for the 1997 Rhône-Poulenc). He won the 1997 Royal Society Faraday Medal for the Public Understanding of Science.

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Praise for Terminally Kill

Sensational. I loved it. An absolute thrill ride

John Niven

Spectacular. Terminally Kill reads like Richard Osman with more blood. A tale of morality, mortality and what happens when a life takes you beyond breaking point'

Tony Parsons