EAN: 9781529411690

LOCKDOWN - PETER MAY TASCHENBUCH

Written over fifteen years ago  this prescient  suspenseful thriller is set against a backdrop
of a capital city in quarantine  and explores human experience in the grip of a killer virus.
'They said that twenty-five percent of the population would catch the flu. Between seventy and
eighty percent of them would die. He had been directly exposed to it  and the odds weren't
good.' A city in quarantine. London  the epicenter of a global pandemic  is a city in lockdown.
Violence and civil disorder simmer. Martial law has been imposed. No one is safe from the
deadly virus that has already claimed thousands of victims. Health and emergency services are
overwhelmed. A murdered child. At a building site for a temporary hospital  construction
workers find a bag containing the rendered bones of a murdered child. A remorseless killer has
been unleashed on the city  his mission is to take all measures necessary to prevent the bones
from being identified. A powerful conspiracy. D.I. Jack MacNeil  counting down the hours on his
final day with the Met  is sent to investigate. His career is in ruins  his marriage over and
his own family touched by the virus. Sinister forces are tracking his every move  prepared to
kill again to conceal the truth. Which will stop him first--the virus or the killers?--Provided
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