Asia Mackay

Asia grew up in London and studied Anthropology at Durham University, after which she started a career in television. She presented and produced lifestyle programmes in Shanghai before moving back to London, where she worked for Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman as Project Manager on their round-the-world motorbike documentaries.

She started writing Killing It on maternity leave and undertook a Faber Academy course to help her finish it. Killing It was runner-up for Richard and Judy’s Search for a Bestseller 2017. The film and TV rights were optioned by 42mp.com. Her follow-up novel, The Nursery, was published in 2019.

Asia lives in London with her husband, four young children and two dogs.

Killing It

Killing Eve meets Stephanie Meyer’s The Chemist in this ‘unique’ (Heat magazine) debut thriller.

Meet Lex Tyler.

She’s a covert operative for Platform Eight, the assassination department of Her Majesty’s Secret Service, and one of the very few women to successfully negotiate the old boy’s network of the espionage world.

She’s smart, resourceful and very deadly – and she’s not your average back-to-work mum.

Her new assignment is a high-stakes hit. Her target: Russian oligarch Dmitri Tupolev. But the more she digs into his life, the more Lex wonders if there isn’t a different game going on – one in which she might be an unsuspecting casualty.

With her own family now to worry about, Lex needs to work out who is really pulling the strings, before she too becomes a loose end.

In her world, failure is not an option.

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