From the creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty

Ascent

A truly stunning novel of one man's dangerous obsession with immortality, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty

A completely gripping, read-at-once novel

Hold on tight and enjoy the ride... Tremendous stuff

One of the most potent and unusual works of literary fiction I've read in years... Mercurio's Yefgenii is as real as anyone you've ever cared about. And care you will

A seat-of-the-pants ride through the life of top Soviet fighter ace with his sights set on the Moon, from an author whose sights are set just as high

A Russian version of The Right Stuff... Riveting

In moments of intense action, we're with this protagonist every inch of the way, through every thought, dive, ache, smell, itch, tast and gastric movement... vertiginously thrilling

Ascent is a page turning story of a man's ambition to be the very best. Based on real events and using real people, it places this fictitious character in a period when space itself was there for the taking. Beautifully written, it's a book that deserves to be read

A cross between adventure story and literary fiction, this is an unusual novel

Streaks by at full throttle... truly exciting

Speaks volumes about heroism and the human condition... A taut, page-turning narrative

A truly stunning novel of one man's dangerous obsession with immortality, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty and co-creator of the graphic novel Sleeper. 
 
ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S '1000 NOVELS EVERYONE MUST READ' 
 
 'A completely gripping, read-at-once novel' The Times 
 
 Yefgenii Yeremin is a flyer and a phantom. 
 
 Destined to go down in Soviet history books as 'Ivan the Terrible', the most deadly fighter pilot of the Korean War, one moment of madness sees Yefgenii throwing his reputation to the wind. Exiled to a remote Arctic base, his name unknown and victories uncelebrated, he must endure a fate worse than death: anonymity. 
 
 But when a man arrives from Moscow's Space Committee in search of a volunteer prepared to sacrifice himself for his country, Yefgenii seizes his one last chance of immortality.

American Adulterer

A breathtaking, original and compelling novel based on the private life of JFK, from the BAFTA award-winning creator and writer of Line and Duty and Bodyguard

American Adulterer is a novel of our times: shameless and prurient, detached and salacious

Compelling. Glacially elegant prose... depicts a man who, for all his power, remains imprisoned by desire

Remarkable... The president's wit, courtesy, peacemaking vision and cool judgement are all here, vividly re-created, as well as courage in the face of near disabling infirmity and pain....gripping and thoughtful

He writes in brilliantly clinical prose...His real success is here is to highlight how JFK moved politics into a culture of celebrity...Mercurio finds a truth in JFK through fiction

Mercurio ought to be applauded for the boldness of his project...The Cuban Missile Crisis is brilliantly, claustrophobically handled, and the treatment of the president's tragically premature son Joseph so riveted me that I found my head reluctantly buried in the book as I walked down the street and bumped into things

Mercurio captures Kennedy's wit (and sometimes its bawdy edge), his vision and his coolness in a crisis

A breath-taking, original and compelling novel based on the private life of JFK, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty and co-creator of the graphic novel Sleeper 
 
 'A novel of our times: shameless and prurient, detached and salacious' Observer 
 
John Fitzgerald Kennedy is the 35th President of the United States, and a serial womaniser. An American man for the modern age: Kennedy is handsome, charming, a beaming paragon of worldly virtue. But beneath the slick veneer of a confident statesman he harbours a vice that will threaten his family, his fortune and even his country. 
 
 Empathetic, darkly witty and deft, Jed Mercurio's American Adulterer shines a novelist's spotlight on the world's most powerful, and corrupting institution: the American Presidency.

Jed Mercurio

Deeply likeable and entertaining - funny, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places - I couldn't put it down

Reading Bodies is a physical experience. The malignant humour is relentless

A darkly powerful and blackly funny exposé of the horrors of life as a junior doctor, from the BAFTA award-winning creator of Bodyguard and Line of Duty and co-creator of the graphic novel Sleeper 
 
 'Funny, readable, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places' Guardian 
 
Inside every hospital exists a world no outsider is allowed to see: a storm of malpractice, corruption, sex, drink and drop-dead exhaustion. 
 
But for first day junior doctors, their initiation into this world - the 'Killing Season' - is about to begin. 
 
 A whistle-blowing despatch from the frontlines of hospital life, Jed Mercurio's Bodies takes us on a nerve-jangling journey through one junior doctor's loss of innocence, and his desperate, dangerous attempts to right his - and his colleagues'- wrongs.

Jed Mercurio

Praise for Bodies

Deeply likeable and entertaining - funny, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places - I couldn't put it down

Gritty, realistic and funny

Reading Bodies is a physical experience. The malignant humour is relentless

Deeply likeable and entertaining - funny, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places - I couldn't put it down

Gritty, realistic and funny

Reading Bodies is a physical experience. The malignant humour is relentless

Deeply likeable and entertaining - funny, galling, painful and terrifying in all the right places - I couldn't put it down

Gritty, realistic and funny

Reading Bodies is a physical experience. The malignant humour is relentless

Books by Jed Mercurio

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