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To Kill a Man

On sale

19th March 2020

Price: £14.99

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Selected: Hardcover / ISBN-13: 9781787474956

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A cat-and-mouse thriller of rare intelligence, To Kill a Man is the latest from number-one bestseller Sam Bourne — a twisting, timely story of power, justice and revenge.

A woman is brutally assaulted in her own home by an intruder. She defends herself — leaving her attacker dead.

But this is no ordinary woman. She’s Natasha Winthrop, tipped as a future president of the United States.

When inconsistencies emerge in Winthrop’s story, political troubleshooter Maggie Costello is drafted in to save Natasha’s career. At first, Winthrop is hailed as a #MeToo heroine: the woman who fought back. But Maggie is soon forced to confront more troubling questions about what really happened that night. Did Natasha secretly know her attacker? Is there a link to similar attacks, in America and around the world?

Who is Natasha Winthrop — and what is she capable of?

Praise for To Kill a Man:

‘Ingenious plot twists and insights into political campaigning, the Me Too movement and the darker side of the internet…this [is a] topical and thought-provoking thriller‘ The Times

‘Completely gripping and original. Sam Bourne puts female anger, vengeance and power at the centre of this, his latest and to my mind most exciting novel, to thrillingly cathartic effect’ Hadley Freeman

‘A compulsive, zeitgeisty tale of gender politics and social-media manipulation. The perfect post-#MeToo thriller — I gobbled it up’ Louise Candlish

‘A strikingly good thriller with a contemporary feel’ Daily Mail

‘A thrilling and involving mystery that provides a masterclass on American politics, but also has a real human story at its heart’ Sunday Express

‘An absorbing and timely thriller’ Irish Independent


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Reviews

Ian Rankin
A Day of the Jackal for these dizzying times
Sunday Times
In To Kill the Truth, Maggie Costello rivetingly tackles a cabal of Holocaust and slavery deniers, whose aim is nothing less than to destroy memory
The Times
Urgently topical
Guardian
A propulsive plot and an appealing heroine . . . The premise is both intriguing and, in the current climate of post-truth, fake news and sour populism, grimly topical
Jeffrey Archer
Read this book
Mail on Sunday
Chilling . . . You think today's news is nightmarish enough? Sam Bourne's provocative thriller imagines things getting much, much worse
Charles Cumming, author of The Man Between
A dazzling thriller
James Swallow, author of Nomad and Exile
Bourne's writing is chillingly plausible... Read it while it's still fiction
Eli Attie, Writer/Producer, The West Wing
House of Cards mixed with Homeland
Raymond Khoury, author of The End Game
A barnstorming read
David Hare
Brilliantly convincing
Sunday Times
A gripping thriller and a prescient warning
Guardian
Pacy, engaging and morally serious
Jewish Chronicle
A pacy, intelligent thriller set in the treacherous world of Trump-era politics . . . Recommended
Sunday Times Crime Club
Grips from first to last page
The Times
Topical and thought-provoking
Daily Mail
Chillingly convincing