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Journalist Gil Peck is back; in therapy, married to Jess - now editor of the Financial Chronicle - and still driven by the need to prove a point that he can't quite identify.
Yet all is not well at home. Jess is fed up with Gil's obsession with his job, and she's kicked him out of their home.
But Gil has never let anything get in the way of a scoop. He and Jess have landed the interview of a lifetime with the Prime Minister, Stella Barnsbury, for the podcast they co-host, and Gil has no intention of missing it.
During the interview, Barnsbury begins to pale, her coughing intensifying before she finally collapses.
Within 48 hours, the Prime Minister is dead.
Gil is used to landing the biggest stories. But as the last person to see the PM alive, he's now a main character. And when foul play is confirmed, he's also a prime suspect . . . Robert Peston is ITV's political editor, presenter of the politics show Peston, founder of the education charity, Speakers for Schools (www.speakers4schools.org), and vice president of Hospice UK. He has written four critically acclaimed non-fiction books, How Do We Fix This Mess?, Who Runs Britain?, Brown's Britain and his latest, WTF?, which was described by the Financial Times as 'mandatory reading' for anyone seeking to understand Brexit, Trump and the collapse of confidence in western liberalism. His first thriller, The Whistleblower, published by Zaffre, was 'brilliant' according to the Guardian and called 'a rollicking read' by the Evening Standard.
For a decade until the end of 2015, he was at the BBC, as economics editor and business editor, and in the 1990s he was at the Financial Times, as political editor, financial editor and head of investigations. At the BBC he played a prominent role in exposing the causes and consequences of the credit crunch, banking crisis and Great Recession. Peston has won more than 30 awards for his journalism, including Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year (twice) from the Royal Television Society. Find him on his blog at itv.com/robertpeston, on Facebook at facebook.com/pestonITV, and on Twitter @peston. He hosts a podcast with Steph McGovern, The Rest is Money. The final thriller in the journalist Gil Peck trilogy. The Prime Minister falls seriously ill with a deadly virus before quickly succumbing. But journalist Gil Peck doesn't buy the official line from Whitehall and sets out to investigate . . . EXCELLENT SALES: We've sold 150k copies of Robert's two thrillers to date. A real indie and high street favourite, but with mass market appeal. *THE* EXPERT ON POLITICS & FINANCE: The Virus is set in the present day, and explore dark money, AI influence and international global politics amongst London's elites. DEDICATED AUTHOR: Robert is up for all kinds of PR activity, both at party conferences and in independent bookshops, Waterstones stores and around the places he travels.
Yet all is not well at home. Jess is fed up with Gil's obsession with his job, and she's kicked him out of their home.
But Gil has never let anything get in the way of a scoop. He and Jess have landed the interview of a lifetime with the Prime Minister, Stella Barnsbury, for the podcast they co-host, and Gil has no intention of missing it.
During the interview, Barnsbury begins to pale, her coughing intensifying before she finally collapses.
Within 48 hours, the Prime Minister is dead.
Gil is used to landing the biggest stories. But as the last person to see the PM alive, he's now a main character. And when foul play is confirmed, he's also a prime suspect . . . Robert Peston is ITV's political editor, presenter of the politics show Peston, founder of the education charity, Speakers for Schools (www.speakers4schools.org), and vice president of Hospice UK. He has written four critically acclaimed non-fiction books, How Do We Fix This Mess?, Who Runs Britain?, Brown's Britain and his latest, WTF?, which was described by the Financial Times as 'mandatory reading' for anyone seeking to understand Brexit, Trump and the collapse of confidence in western liberalism. His first thriller, The Whistleblower, published by Zaffre, was 'brilliant' according to the Guardian and called 'a rollicking read' by the Evening Standard.
For a decade until the end of 2015, he was at the BBC, as economics editor and business editor, and in the 1990s he was at the Financial Times, as political editor, financial editor and head of investigations. At the BBC he played a prominent role in exposing the causes and consequences of the credit crunch, banking crisis and Great Recession. Peston has won more than 30 awards for his journalism, including Journalist of the Year and Scoop of the Year (twice) from the Royal Television Society. Find him on his blog at itv.com/robertpeston, on Facebook at facebook.com/pestonITV, and on Twitter @peston. He hosts a podcast with Steph McGovern, The Rest is Money. The final thriller in the journalist Gil Peck trilogy. The Prime Minister falls seriously ill with a deadly virus before quickly succumbing. But journalist Gil Peck doesn't buy the official line from Whitehall and sets out to investigate . . . EXCELLENT SALES: We've sold 150k copies of Robert's two thrillers to date. A real indie and high street favourite, but with mass market appeal. *THE* EXPERT ON POLITICS & FINANCE: The Virus is set in the present day, and explore dark money, AI influence and international global politics amongst London's elites. DEDICATED AUTHOR: Robert is up for all kinds of PR activity, both at party conferences and in independent bookshops, Waterstones stores and around the places he travels.
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