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Lockdown: An incredibly prescient crime thriller from the author of The Lewis Trilogy
Peter May
London, Greater London, Crime & mystery, Thriller / suspense
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- Paperback Apr 28, 2020 | 9781529411690 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 14, 2020 | 9781529411706 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 1, 2020 | 9781529411683 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Apr 28, 2020 | 9781529411690 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 14, 2020 | 9781529411706 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 1, 2020 | 9781529411683 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Apr 28, 2020 | 9781529411690 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook May 14, 2020 | 9781529411706 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Apr 1, 2020 | 9781529411683 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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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.
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 eight 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?
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
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Praise for Lockdown: An incredibly prescient crime thriller from the author of The Lewis Trilogy
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Lockdown feels inescapably relevant, its pages teeming with existential dread - iPaper
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May's depiction of a London under siege from a powerful global virus now rings only too true... Packed with detail, it makes uncomfortable, but gripping, reading
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Inescapably relevant - The Scotsman
Peter May
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.
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