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What if the person you’re ordered to kill Is the woman you want to protect? Michael North, assassin and spy-for-hire, is very good at killing bad guys. But what happens when his shadowy bosses at the dark heart of the British government order him to kill a good woman instead? Rising political star Honor Jones, MP, has started asking dangerous questions about the men running her country. The trouble is, she doesn’t know when to stop. And, now that he's met her, neither does North.

"A terrific future-shock thriller." —Lee Child

"New thriller writers come and go. I suspect this lady will stick around." —Frederick Forsyth

Judith O'Reilly is the author of Wife in the North,. She is a former political producer with BBC 2's Newsnight, she writes for the Sunday Times, and has acted as a strategic communications adviser for both government and business.