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  • Published: 10 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529933529
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $22.99

Hunted





A blistering contemporary thriller with a real message for our polarised times from Abir Mukherjee, the award-winning author of the Wyndham and Banerjee series.

Your kids are missing, accused of plotting to kill thousands. Can you find them before it's too late?

It's a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall.

In London, armed police storm Heathrow Airport and arrest Sajid Khan. His daughter, Aliyah entered the USA with the suicide bomber, and now she's missing, potentially plotting another attack on American soil.

But then a woman called Carrie turns up at Sajid's door after travelling halfway across the world. She claims Aliyah is with her son and she has a clue to their whereabouts. Carrie knows something isn't adding up - and that she and Sajid are the only ones who can find their children and discover the truth.

On the run from the authorities, the two parents are thrown together in a race against time to stop their kids and prevent a catastrophe the likes of which the world has never seen.

For fans of Adrian McKinty's The Chain, Clare Mackintosh's Hostage and global bestseller I Am Pilgrim, this blockbuster contemporary thriller will turn your world on its head.

  • Published: 10 June 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529933529
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $22.99

About the author

Abir Mukherjee

Abir Mukherjee is the bestselling author of the award-winning Wyndham & Banerjee series of crime novels set in Raj-era India. He has won the CWA Historical Dagger and the Wilbur Smith Award for Adventure Writing, and has been shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger, and HWA Gold Crown. His novels, A Rising Man and Smoke and Ashes were both selected as Waterstones Thriller of the Month. Smoke and Ashes was also chosen as one of The Times’ Best Crime and Thrillers since 1945. Abir grew up in Scotland and now lives in Surrey with his wife and two sons.

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Praise for Hunted

A rip-roaring, bang-up-to-date political thriller that grabs you from the first pages and never lets go. Twists you won't see coming, nail-biting suspense and finely drawn characters that will linger long after reading. Unmissable

Steve Cavanagh

A masterclass in intelligent suspense fiction. Hunted is an absolute banger

Mick Herron

An exciting, dark and kinetic thriller from one of the UK's greatest crime fiction talents, Hunted is a must-read

Adrian McKinty, bestselling author of The Chain

Mukherjee deftly interweaves the personal and political, subverting expectations, while taking the reader on a rollercoaster journey of emotions in this tense and brilliant thriller

Ayisha Malik

Tense, twisty and full of heartstoppingly real characters, Hunted will keep you guessing until the very end

Ruth Ware

A pretty much flawless thriller, HUNTED works on every level imaginable. Terrific characters are subtly and mercilessly pushed along by a plot as propulsive as it is constantly surprising.

Lee Child

An urgent and blisteringly-paced chase thriller

Vaseem Khan

A timely and intelligent thriller that makes you think. Puts ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances to create a fast-paced novel about family, prejudice & the devastating consequences of polarised politics.

Anna Mazzola

If you're looking for a kick-ass, pedal-to-the-metal thriller you need HUNTED by the supremely talented Abir Mukherjee

Mark Billingham

HUNTED is a damn exciting read. It’s also a brave book. Nothing quite like it has been published before

James Patterson

Hunted is a mature, intelligent thriller written with forensic skill and observation. This irresistible spiderweb of twisting fates moves seamlessly from the personal to the global. I was swept along on an epic and fast-moving adventure, crafted with insight, empathy and devastating attention to detail. Mukherjee has put the world in a book and I dare anyone to put it down. Stunning

Janice Hallett

A high-octane, high-adrenaline thriller where global politics light a fuse under family life. Chillingly plausible

Erin Kelly

A firecracker of fiction. Incendiary, devastating, wildly exciting. Strap yourself in and brace for the ride

Chris Whitaker

This book is that rare thing: a thriller with a courageous and complex neurodiverse lead character whose authenticity shines through, making an already gripping story even more compulsively readable

Sarah Hilary

An irresistible blend of high-octane thriller plot, nuanced characterisation and smart writing. Not to be missed!

Shari Lapena

The diverse, well-drawn cast, clever investigative work, and breakneck pacing easily carry the readers through the novel’s many-tentacled plot. With this pulse-pounding thriller, Mukherjee proves he’s just as good at mining the present for suspense as the past

Publisher's Weekly

This novel will make you shudder. It’s taut, credible, and scary.

Kirkus

...epic, thrilling, tragic and humane. Like 24 meets Homeland with heart. And damn the writing is excellent

Jo Callaghan, Sunday Times bestselling author of In the Blink of an Eye.

Hunted is a high-octane thriller that’s epic in scale, urgent in theme + intimate in character. Clever, nuanced, propulsive, it explores patriotism, prejudice and unbelonging in a volatile political climate. Anyone who's fought for their right to exist will see themselves in it.

Kia Abdullah, bestselling author of Those People Next Door

'Hunted is a phenomenal achievement, with its sizeable cast of memorable characters, flawless juggling of multiple storylines, and a political dimension that makes it more than pacey entertainment.'

John Dugdale, The Times

A pure adrenaline read

Prima

A race-against-time story with some excellent twists and subversions of expectations

Observer

Smart and blisteringly contemporary

Mail on Sunday

With multiple narrators, a fast pace and a horribly credible storyline, this white-knuckle ride across a fractured country grips from start to finish

Guardian

[Mukherjee] carries off the change of gears with tremendous panache… Apart from the sheer éclat of the storytelling, Mukherjee’s star is his unconventional and bloody-minded heroine

Financial Times

This intelligent chase thriller…is extremely timely

Sun

[With] skintight plotting and a twisting storyline… [Hunted is] unputdownable

India Knight, Sunday Times

Immediately catapults [Mukherjee] into the ranks of best action-thriller

Crime Time

[A] pulse-pounding new action thriller

Daily Express

Enjoyable and compelling… Hunted is obviously destined to be a bestseller

Scotsman

Mukherjee abandons his Raj settings for a terrorism scenario in contemporary America, negotiating the change of gears with panache

Financial Times, *Books of the Year*

With a fast pace and deftly juggled multiple storylines, this is a true white-knuckle ride

Guardian, *Books of the Year*

An action thriller written with forensic skill and observation

Janice Hallett, Daily Express, *Books of the Year*

A never-lets-up thriller that brilliantly combines the personal and the global in the crafting of a fabulous tale

John Sutherland, Daily Express, *Books of the Year*

Mukherjee’s first foray into the contemporary thriller arena tackles a slew of hot button issues: How innocents are radicalised. The divisive nature of modern political rhetoric. The responsibility that parents bear for the actions of their children. Set against the upcoming Presidential election, this is an urgent and blisteringly-paced chase thriller

Vaseem Khan
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