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The Black Art of Killing

By: Matthew Hall
Narrated by: Jonathan Guy-Lewis
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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 ...

© Matthew Hall 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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Critic reviews

This intelligent thriller is his best work yet
This is an ideal piece of escapism. I heartily recommend it
A Bond-style thriller for the 21st century. . . Written with pace and great panache, it feels like a movie already
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
A fast-paced global thriller
Matthew Hall has crafted an action thriller with more texture than most
Praise for Matthew Hall
Breathlessly enjoyable
An edge-of-the-seat thriller . . . should come with a health warning
Fasten your seatbelts for a quality thriller . . .
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I couldn't get enough of this book. I listened at every moment I could - cooking dinner, ironing, gardening. I hope this will become a new series.

Fantastic

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The story has to grab your attention which it did for me and a good narrator, thumbs up from me!

Enjoyable

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Once again a brilliantly crafted Story by Mathew Hall . Well scripted and gritty in its deliverance .. Mathew always gleans information about the lives of his characters .. researching into the ordinary aspects of their lives throughly which gives them grit and believability.
Great book .
Wonderfully performed.

The Black Art of Killing

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Excellent story line, good twists and turns
Something a bit different the than the other books of a similar nature. I would highly recommend this book.
Well written and well read A+

Black art of killing

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once I got o to the story I didn't want to stop listening, wish there was another audio book by this Uth6or

riveting

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