The Kill Switch

The brand-new explosive 2026 thriller from the bestselling UK political journalist

Robert Peston author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bonnier Books Ltd

Publishing:9th Jul '26

£16.99

This title is due to be published on 9th July, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

The Kill Switch cover

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 . . .

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.

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 . . .

ISBN: 9781785126086

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

400 pages