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The Black Art of Killing by Matthew Hall
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The Black Art of Killing

The most explosive thriller youโ€™ll read this year
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Length 13 hours 9 minutes
Language English
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Dr Leo Black is one of Oxford University's rising stars. His lectures play to a packed audience of adoring students. He seems destined for tenure amongst the gleaming spires. But Worcester College has never employed a man like Leo Black before.

For twenty years Leo served the SAS with distinction. And when the friend he served alongside is killed in Paris trying to prevent the abduction of a young British scientist, the world Leo has tried to put behind him begins to reel him back in.

When Leo's former Commanding Officer reveals that Paris represented far more than just a single, isolated tragedy, Leo reluctantly agrees to help, whatever the cost to his new life.

But as Leo gets closer to the startling truth about his friend's death, he also faces an uncomfortable recognition that, while he might be a promising academic, he is a truly exceptional soldier ...

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Matthew Hall (Author)
Matthew Hall was educated at Hereford Cathedral School and graduated in Law from Worcester College, Oxford. He worked as a criminal barrister before getting his first screenwriting commission with the ITV hit series, Kavanagh QC starring John Thaw. He has since written over 60 hours of prime-time drama. In 2018 he won a BAFTA Cymru for his BBC series, Keeping Faith, which returns for a third and concluding season in 2020. He lives in Herefordshire with his wife Patricia Carswell. They have two sons.

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Reviews

Hall probes how a real-life Jack Reacher figure might cope with years of taking lives for the greater good, and Black's inner conflict gives the firefights and betrayals erupting around him unusual depth A fast-paced global thriller Matthew Hall has crafted an action thriller with more texture than most Praise for Matthew Hall Breathlessly enjoyable An edge-of-the-seat thriller . . . should come with a health warning Fasten your seatbelts for a quality thriller . . . This intelligent thriller is his best work yet This is an ideal piece of escapism. I heartily recommend it A Bond-style thriller for the 21st century. . . Written with pace and great panache, it feels like a movie already Expand reviews
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