Portobello Book Blog

Welcome to my stop on The Killing State blogtour. Due to unavoidable circumstances, I’m not able to bring you a guest post as was planned. I hope to be able to share this in the future. So instead, I’m sharing the details of the book with you.

What’s the book about?

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 post-Brexit British government, order him to kill an innocent woman and North can’t bring himself to do it?

The woman is a rising political star, Honor Jones, MP.  She has started asking dangerous questions about the powerful men running her country. The trouble is, Honour doesn’t know when to stop. And, now that he’s met her, neither does North…

About the Author

Judith O’Reilly is the author of Wife in the North, a top-three Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. Judith is a former political producer with BBC 2’s Newsnight and ITN’s Channel 4 News, and, when she isn’t writing novels, she writes for The Sunday Times.  Judith lives in Durham.

My thanks to Kelly at Love Books Group Tours for inviting me to take part in the blog tour. The Killing State is published by House of Zeus and available now as an e-book. The paperback edition will follow in July. You can order a Kindle copy online here: The Killing State

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