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Jed Mercurio

    Jed Mercurio is a British author and producer known for his incisive social commentary and gripping narratives. His work often delves into complex ethical dilemmas and moral compromises within demanding professional environments. Through a penetrating style and a profound understanding of human nature, he crafts stories that are both intellectually stimulating and emotionally resonant. His contributions are celebrated for their originality and masterful execution.

    Sleeper
    American Adulterer
    Ascent
    Bodies
    • Bodies

      • 368 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.9(487)Add rating

      Inside every hospital there exists a world no outsider has been allowed to see, not even those who arrive there to begin careers in medicine. Into this plunges an idealistic young doctor who is about to lose all innocence in a world that long ago lost its sense of right or wrong.

      Bodies
    • Ascent

      • 120 pages
      • 5 hours of reading
      3.6(84)Add rating

      But the Soviet Union's involvement in Korea must be kept secret, so Yefgenii is exiled to a remote Arctic base, his name unknown, his victories uncelebrated. Years later, and long forgotten, Yefgenii Yeremin is called upon one final time.

      Ascent
    • American Adulterer

      • 176 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      3.2(19)Add rating

      From the creator of the award-winning TV show, Line of DutyLike any womaniser, the subject of this novel must go to extraordinary lengths to hide his affairs from his wife and colleagues.

      American Adulterer
    • The first in a hotly anticipated new graphic novel series DS-5, a biologically-enhanced law enforcement marshal, is due to be decommissioned after decades in deep space. He returns to a solar system finally rising out of a devastating climate war following the discovery of a miraculous new energy Titan Green. His pod crashes on Titan following a mysterious explosion, and DS-5 deploys for his final an investigation into mass murder that becomes entwined with a geologist's quest for her missing father. But as DS-5's ageing tech begins to fail, human faculties and memories resurface, forcing him to confront the dark provenance of his recruitment.Jed Mercurio and Prasanna Puwanarajah have taken the Conspiracy Thriller and the Western and sent them into orbit. Stunningly illustrated by Coke Navarro, Sleeper is a riveting work of imagination.  

      Sleeper