SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERImagine Slow Horses Jackson Lamb in the body of Jodie Comers character in Killing Eve SUNDAY TIMESCompulsively readable... Kill Bill written by John le Carr OBSERVERSeductive and cunning American spyforhire Sadie Smith has been sent by her mysterious but powerful employers to a remote corner of France.Her mission to infiltrate a commune of radical ecoactivists influenced by the beliefs of an enigmatic elder, Bruno Lacombe, who has rejected civilisation, lives in a Neanderthal cave, and believes the path to enlightenment is a return to primitivism.Sadie casts her cynical eye over this region of ancient farms and sleepy villages, and finds Brunos idealism laughable, but just as she is certain shes the seductress and puppet master of those she surveils, Bruno Lacombe is seducing her with his ingenious counterhistories, his artful laments, his own tragic story.Beneath this a taut, dazzling story of espionage and intrigue lies one of a woman caught in the crossfire between the past and the future, and a profound treatise on human history.The most exciting writer of her generation BRET EASTON ELLISReinvents the spy novel in one cool, erudite gesture HERNAN DIAZA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, INDEPENDENT, DAILY TELEGRAPH, THE ATLANTIC, GUARDIAN, VULTURE, THE ECONOMIST

Binding: Hardback;352 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FA; Weight: 644 g; Dimensions: 225 x 147 x 37

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