The Black Art of Killing
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  • Published: 2 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781405946902
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $27.99

The Black Art of Killing

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25 Jun 2020
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2 Apr 2020
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30 Mar 2021
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An action packed adventure thriller from the acclaimed screenwriter of Keeping Faith. For fans of Frank Gardner and James Swallow.

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 ...
  • Published: 2 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781405946902
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $27.99
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Praise for The Black Art of Killing

Breathlessly enjoyable

The Times

An edge-of-the-seat thriller . . . should come with a health warning

Irish Independent

Fasten your seatbelts for a quality thriller . . .

Independent on Sunday

Praise for Matthew Hall

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This intelligent thriller is his best work yet

The Sun

This is an ideal piece of escapism. I heartily recommend it

Shots Magazine

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

The Times

A Bond-style thriller for the 21st century. . . Written with pace and great panache, it feels like a movie already

The Daily Mail

A fast-paced global thriller

Mail on Sunday

Matthew Hall has crafted an action thriller with more texture than most

The Times