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Praise for Curse The Day

"Relentlessly plotted with a blistering pace, Curse the Day is a sharply-drawn, gleefully witty conspiracy thriller. Tackling tomorrow's nightmare today, this is a superb novel."
M W CRAVEN

"Judith O'Reilly is a masterful storyteller. In Curse the Day she's woven a slick, fast-paced thriller brimming with characters that are both finely drawn and compelling. Do yourself a favour and buy this book."
L J ROSS

"A brilliant technothriller that reads like a Bond movie... I could not put this book down."
ZOË SHARP

"...packed with no-holds-barred action and memorable characters, it's a blast."
JAMES SWALLOW

Curse The Day Out: April 2020 (hardback), October 2020 (paperback)

Buried secrets always surface

At a global tech gala hosted at the British Museum, scientist Toby Hawkes is due to unveil an astonishing breakthrough. His AI system appears to have reached consciousness, making Hawke the leading light in his field.

But when terrorists storm the building, they don't just leave chaos and corpses in their wake. They seize Hawke's masterwork, sparking a chain reaction of explosive events which could end the world as we know it.

Michael North, ex-assassin and spy-for-hire, must find the killers and recover the AI. But he can't do it alone. Hawke's wife, Esme, and teenage hacker, Fangfang, have their own reasons to help complete North's mission - and together they unravel a dark and deadly conspiracy which stretches right to the top of the British elite.

Can North survive long enough to uncover the whole truth? Or is it already too late for him - and too late for humanity.

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