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Lockdown
An incredibly prescient crime thriller from the author of The Lewis Trilogy
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London. The city is in lockdown in a pandemic. Martial law is in place. The hospitals and emergency services are overwhelmed. Violence and civil disorder are simmering.
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The 12 million copy bestselling author of The Lewis Trilogy, The Enzo Files and The China Thrillers
Award-winning author of the CWA Dagger in the Library 2021
"Peter May is one of the most accomplished novelists writing today." Undiscovered Scotland
"No one can create a more eloquently written suspense novel than Peter May." New York Journal of Books
"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 QuarantineLondon, the epicentre 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 ChildAt 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 ConspiracyD.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 is 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?
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. Loved Lockdown? Read the first book in the acclaimed Lewis trilogy, The Blackhouse Love Peter May? Buy his new thriller, The Night GateBook Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?
Lockdown by Peter May is perceived as uncannily timely, evoking existential dread through its depiction of a London besieged by a pandemic. The book is packed with intricate details, making it both gripping and unsettling to read.
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ISBN: 9781529411690
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 30 April 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: riverrun
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 280g
Pages: 416
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About the Author
Peter May was born and raised in Scotland. He was an award-winning journalist at the age of twenty-one and a published novelist at twenty-six. When his first book was adapted as a major drama series for the BBC, he quit journalism and during the high-octane fifteen years that followed, became one of Scotland's most successful television dramatists. He created three prime-time drama series, presided over two of the highest-rated serials in his homeland as script editor and producer, and worked on more than 1,000 episodes of ratings-topping drama before deciding to leave television to return to his first love, writing novels.
In 2021, he was awarded the CWA Dagger in the Library Award. He has also won several literature awards in France, received the USA's Barry Award for The Blackhouse, the first in his internationally bestselling Lewis Trilogy; and in 2014 was awarded the ITV Specsavers Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year award for Entry Island. Peter now lives in South-West France with his wife, writer Janice Hally.Also by Peter May
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