Maura Nelson, who has a sophisticated background in science, medicine, and programming, has stumbled upon a way to execute someone using only the computers in her home office—silently, anonymously, leaving no trace of violence, so that her target appears to have died of natural causes. Maura tests her method by eliminating Syrian tyrant Bashar al-Assad, but this experience affects her so deeply that she doesn’t want to continue alone. She entices Jack Plymouth into a partnership to rid the world of those they decide “need to be dead.” Both a steamy romance and a cyber-thriller, My Immaculate Assassin raises disturbing and timely questions about the technology and morality of “idealistic” murder, carried out remotely.

David Vaiani was born in Vienna and educated at Oxford. He spent ten years in the corporate world in London before becoming a teacher, and he now teaches History at Cranleigh School, where he is also an Assistant Housemaster. He is married and lives in the Surrey Hills, but tries to spend as much time as possible in Italy. He is a member of the Reform Club. This is his first book.