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Simon Kernick (born February 1967 in Slough, Berkshire) is a British thriller/crime writer now living in Oxfordshire with his two daughters. Kernick attended Gillotts School, a comprehensive in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. Whilst he was a student his jobs included fruit-picker and Christmas-tree uprooter. He graduated from Brighton Polytechnic in 1991 with a degree in humanities.

Kernick had a passion for crime fiction writing from a young age and produced many short stories during his time at polytechnic. After graduating Kernick joined MMT Computing in London in early 1992, where a relative was the Chairman and Managing Director. He left the company after four years in the hope of trying to secure a publishing deal. Despite interest from a number of publishers Kernick was unable to secure a deal, so he joined the sales force of the specialist IT and Business Consultancy Metaskil plc in Aldermaston, Berkshire in 1998 where he remained until he secured his first book deal The Business of Dying in September 2001.

His novel Relentless was recommended on Richard & Judy's Summer book club 2007. It was the 8th best-selling paperback, and the best-selling thriller in the UK in the same year.

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”Vi har din datter.” Det er aften, du kommer sent hjem fra arbejde – og huset ligger i mørke. Du går indenfor, og telefonen ringer. Du tager den – og din verden bliver vendt på hovedet. Din fjortenårige datter er blevet bortført, og hendes kidnappere forlanger en halv million pund i kontanter. De giver dig 48 timer til at skaffe pengene. Hvis du ringer til politiet, dør hun. Mens mareridtet udspiller sig, kan du være sikker på to ting: at du vil gøre hvad som helst for at få din datter levende hjem – og at tiden rinder ud … Simon Kernick har været nr. 1 på Sunday Times’ bestsellerliste og er en af Storbritanniens mest spændende thrillerforfattere. Han bor i Oxford­shire med sin kone og to børn. Han har en uni­versitetsgrad i humaniora, og hans lidenskab for at skrive og læse krimiromaner startede i en tidlig alder, hvor han skrev små noveller. „Det bump, du kan høre, er Kernick, der trækker tæppet væk under dig igen.“ – The Times „Simon Kernick er en af de mest pålidelige leverandører af på-kanten-af-stolen-thrillere … Et adrenalinsus, der overgår den kraftigste hjertemedicin.“ – Sunday Express „Gode plots, gode karakterer, god action.“ – Lee Child
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Udgivelsesdato06 okt. 2021
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ISBN lydbog9788771078497