Sajid is a mild mannered clerk but armed police arrive to arrest him and he discovers that his daughter , who was supposed to be travelling to Japan has entered the USA with another woman who was the bomb setter in a huge explosion in a mall. Released by the police he is again surprised to be visited by Carrie, an American woman, who tells him she thinks her son is with his daughter and she thinks she knows where they are. she persuades Sajid to travel back to the USA with her to look for the kids. Meanwhile Agent Mistry, a maverick but effective FBI agent is also on the trail. Who'll find them first? Begin a hectic car chase across America and the intrigue of treachery inside the FBI.. Rattling pace, a twisty plot and plenty to keep you interested and guessing.

Super-exciting thriller! Kids are being radicalised and are travelling to the USA where a series of bombs are being set off – but who is really organising it all? With the Presidential election looming, the FBI are quick to assume who is responsible but everything gets much more complicated .
Abir Mukherjee speaks to the heart when he deals with racism, unconscious bias etc in today's UK and US; a definite thought-provoker for those who don't realise how deeply this is embedded in everyday life. Parallel to that reality is a superb, nail-biting race to stop chaos and bloodshed - where you're not even sure who the enemy is.
Shreya Mistry a determined FBI agent mistrusted by her superiors, stays ahead of the FBI most of the time, constantly in danger from all sides (including the FBI itself). The parents of 2 young people are thrown together when an American mother gets a smuggled letter from her son telling her of his plight. She travels to the UK to convince Sajid Khan whose daughter is also in danger that together they need to save their children from the people (unknown) they have become involved with.
This book has great characters; ones you love, others you admire, together with horrifically cold and ruthless 'baddies'. I’d love to see this book made into a film – it has so much to say and is so fast-paced. I cried at the end. Some characters really get to you…

A solid well paced thriller . I really enjoyed most of this book although one of the story streams ( that of the parents) felt unnecessary to the plot/ narrative. I felt the book ran out of steam a little towards the closing chapters which was frustrating as up to that, I found it hard to put down.

Overall though a decent thriller and would recommend to fans of this genre.

3.5 stars rounded up.

A suicide bombing in a shopping mall, a missing daughter that could possibly have been radicalised.
Two parents hunting for their children before the authorities find them.

It doesn’t let up and hares on at such a fast pace i read it without hardly pausing in my mind to breathe.

Thank you for an advanced copy of this book by an author I haven’t read before.

I’m sure if this is your type of genre you will love it but definitely not for me so I struggled to mark it. 2 stars from me but definitely 4 stars if this is your thing.

Oh wow. My first book by this author but most definitely not my last. I absolutely ADORED Hunted - it's a gripping, page-turning thriller with several fully-rounded and compelling central characters. I loved Sajid Khan - a father who will literally go to any lengths to save his daughter. I also loved US Agent, Sherya Mistry, and absolutely adored Greg's mother Carrie.

The novel has so much to say about racism, modern politics and the general state of the world. This is an absolutely fabulous novel - I cannot recommend it highly enough.

4.5* Hunted is Abir Mukherjee’s first stand alone book and it is a stunner.

A bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall a week before the presidential elections. The FBI agent assigned to the case thinks there is something a bit odd in the CCTV footage, which may mean it isn’t as straightforward as her colleagues want to believe. The bomber has links to Aliyah, a young British woman who has disappeared from her London home. As the possibility of further terrorist attacks ahead of the election loom, Aliyah’s father joins the race to save his daughter in parallel to the FBI team trying to foil any further atrocities.

This is a whip smart and breathtaking thriller. Abir Mukherjee doesn’t shy from tricky issues while being incredibly skilful at building the tension to almost unbearably levels. The plot is twisty and well crafted and the pacing is superb (alternating between high tempo and slow burn). My only slight concern is that the characters weren’t hugely likeable, save for I rooted throughout for Shreya, the FBI agent who can read a situation but not the people involved.

Hunted is a genuine standout high concept, bold thriller in a genre that is very tricky to get right. I absolutely love Abir’s Wyndham and Banerjee series and I’m thrilled that this is as enjoyable. Thoroughly recommended.

Thanks to Harvill Secker, PRH and Netgalley for an ARC.

This is a good, competent thriller of its type, with a few additional gratifying twists: and it's always lovely to see the British Asian spin on this narrative (including the fact that if you're always regarded as a dangerous radical, you're more likely to become one). I enjoyed it. However, I can't help longing for AM to resume his truly innovative Rising Man series, which brought him so much justified acclaim and which is really saying something important...

What a jam packed, fast paced read this was. With a novel take on the whole idea of who perpetrates acts of terror on civilians, Mukherjee doesn't shy away from confronting some of the big issues like racism, bias, prejudice, the mess that politics is in and more.
Taking us from the streets of London, to Canada and then the length and breadth of the USA, it's safe to say that Hunted takes us on a mega journey. With a diverse cast of characters, this is a refreshing read which reflects society.
A departure for his usual historic crime novels, Hunted is a good , if sometimes uncomfortable read. Definitely recommended.

I hadn’t read anything by Abir Mukherjee before, but after enjoying his fun, graceful chairing at Bay Tales 2023, I was tempted to try his latest novel, Hunted. This sounded like it might be in the same vein as novels I’ve enjoyed by Steve Cavanagh and Mason Cross – the blurb suggested it would follow a father, Sajid, who finds out his daughter has been implicated in a terrorist attack and is now on the run, and who decides to find out the truth of what happened. Unfortunately, I found this one disappointing, partly because the plot is a lot more complicated than that, and Mukherjee simply tries to stuff too many characters and plotlines into one novel. There’s no breathing space to really get to know characters like Sajid as we constantly flip from one group of narrators to another, and I have to admit that it wasn’t very long before I was thoroughly confused. The pace, as well, was just too breathless for me – there’s literally no let-up in the action, which contributed to the weak characterisation and, for me, robbed the novel of tension. I think that judicious pauses are key to make even the paciest of thrillers work, allowing the reader to anticipate what’s going to happen: Cross’s The Killing Season and The Time To Kill are both very good at this, for example. Otherwise, what should be action just devolves into endless movement. Unfortunately, this has not encouraged me to read anything further by Mukherjee.

‘Hunted’ is quite the departure for author Abir Mukherjee, author of the historical Wyndham & Banerjee series. His new novel is a modern day, (mostly) US set thriller with a whole lot of race-against-time, a good helping of conspiracy plot and plenty of action.
The story is, for the most part, a trio of points of views: Shreya – a government agent who’s career is decidedly on the side, Sajid – a Londoner whose daughter is catapulted into the headlines as a suspected terrorist on the run in the US, and Greg; an Army Vet who’s disillusionment in post military life has led him to make some truly bad decisions and is now, along with Sajid’s daughter Aliyah, involved in something very bad for the shadowy Miriam…a woman who is much more than she first appears.
While a number of British writers have relocated their work to the US (Lee Child being the most obvious example, but MW Craven recently with his action thriller ‘Fearless’ among many others), Mukherjee takes a ‘non-action’ approach to his story. That’s not to say there isn’t action in it – there is, and in spades – but the focus here is on ‘ordinary’ people in extraordinary circumstances and is all the better for it: and manages a blend of authentic seeming descriptions of the US landscape with much of the perspective coming from a character forced to sneak into the country and experience it for the first time.
There is a lot going on in this story – not just a rollicking good thriller (which it is), but questions about culture, identity and political/ religious fear and loathing, and family.
While this is a different book in terms of location/ time and (sub) genre, regular readers of Abir’s will not be disappointed: his writing is as sharp and well done as ever.

This book did feel very tense and heightened tensions throughout often because of the subject matter and fear that it creates. Great fast paced read overall.

My thoughts about Abir Mukherjee’s breathtaking conspiracy terrorism thriller Hunted has a fast moving pace combining action, drama and even suspense which holds your attention to the very end. Abir Mukherjee’s Hunted is a complete and wholesome masterpiece. A realistic and commendable approach to the ticking time bomb that deals with a very sensitive matter, & it is not just a book based on terrorism, but it is also a story of a father’s search for her daughter and the truth to find her. Writer Abir Mukherjee needs a high praise who brings a fresh & new tide in the vast ocean. Hunted is a gripping thriller with excellent well written storyline execution by Abir Mukherjee. The story of Abir Mukherjee’s Hunted begins with It’s a week before the presidential elections when a bomb goes off in an LA shopping mall.
In London, armed police storm Heathrow Airport and arrest Sajid Khan. His daughter, Aliyah entered the USA with the suicide bomber, and now she’s missing, potentially plotting another attack on American soil. But then a woman called Carrie turns up at Sajid’s door after travelling halfway across the world. She claims Aliyah is with her son and she has a clue to their whereabouts. Carrie knows something isn’t adding up – and that she and Sajid are the only ones who can find their children and discover the truth. On the run from the authorities, the two parents are thrown together in a race against time to save their kids and stop a catastrophe that will derail the country’s future forever. Overall Abir Mukherjee’s Hunted is an intelligent diatribe against terrorism, refreshingly packaged as a racy thriller that leads into an engaging cat-and-mouse game. I would like to say a big thank you to Abir Mukherjee, and publishers Vintage books for kindly letting me read and review this book on netgalley. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥💥💥