The Kill Machine by Paul E Hardisty

The Kill Machine by Paul E Hardisty

On Ukraine’s frontline, a journalist rescues a girl from an atrocity and suspects that a fellow volunteer is involved. When a soldier offers him the power to make things right, he must choose between justice and vengeance. A searing, morally complex literary thriller drawn from first-hand experience.

‘Superbly handled’ The Times

‘Utterly compelling’ Eve Smith

‘Hardisty is a fine writer’ Lee Child

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A journalist covering the war in Ukraine accompanies a group of humanitarian volunteers to the frontline. In a town being crushed by the Russian advance, he discovers the aftermath of an atrocity – and rescues a young girl he believes may have seen everything.

One of the volunteers, he is certain, is responsible.

With Russian troops closing in and suspicion turning inward, he must keep the child alive, expose the man he believes committed the crime, and find some form of justice in a war that has stripped away every rule.

But the atrocity changes him. As he struggles to write honestly about what he has seen, and to understand the limits of love and evil, he befriends a young soldier in the kill zone, who offers him a Faustian pact: the power to make things right, if he is prepared to cross a line from which there may be no return.

Drawn from first-hand experience reporting on the war in Ukraine, The Kill Machine follows a journalist to the limits of justice, love and vengeance – and asks what is left of a man when he has gone beyond them.

For readers who love Sebastian Faulks and The Cellist of Sarajevo.
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Praise for Paul E. Hardisty

‘A remarkably well-written, sophisticated novel' Literary Review

'Searing … at times achieves the level of genuine poetry' Publishers Weekly STARRED review

Canadian Paul E Hardisty has spent 25 years working all over the world as an engineer, hydrologist and environmental scientist. He has roughnecked on oil rigs in Texas, explored for gold in the Arctic, mapped geology in Eastern Turkey (where he was befriended by PKK rebels), and rehabilitated water wells in the wilds of Africa. He was in Ethiopia in 1991 as the Mengistu regime fell, and was bumped from one of the last flights out of Addis Ababa by bureaucrats and their families fleeing the rebels. In 1993 he survived a bomb blast in a café in Sana’a. Paul is a university professor and CEO of the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS).

The first four novels in his Claymore Straker series, The Abrupt Physics of Dying,The Evolution of Fear, Reconciliation for the Dead and Absolution all received great critical acclaim and The Abrupt Physics of Dying was shortlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger and Telegraph Thriller of the Year. Paul is a sailor, a private pilot, keen outdoorsman, conservation volunteer, and lives in Western Australia.

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ISBN 13	9781919061085
ISBN 10	1919061088
Title	The Kill Machine
Author	Paul E Hardisty
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orenda Books
Number of pages	300
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