Lockdown: the crime thriller that predicted a world in quarantine

‘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 QUARANTINELondon is in lockdown under martial law. A hospital is being urgently built by the river Thames to contain the thousands of victims of a flu-like epidemic. Construction is brought to a sudden halt when a leather holdall containing the bones of a child is unearthed from the rubble.A KILLER WITHOUT REMORSEA psychopath has been unleashed on the city; his mission is to take all measures necessary to prevent the bones from being identified. But why are he and his handlers determined to go to such murderous lengths to hide the origins of the body?A GRIEVING INSPECTORDI Jack MacNeil is facing his last day on the force, his career in ruins, his marriage over and his beloved son Jack dying from the virus. He has only hours to prevent the killer from eliminating all witnesses to a conspiracy whose evil effects are beyond belief.(P)2020 Quercus Editions Limited

Reviews of Lockdown: the crime thriller that predicted a world in quarantine

May … is a classy crime writer and Lockdown is both prophetic and unnerving * Guardian * Lockdown feels inescapably relevant, its pages teeming with existential dread — Nick Duerden * iPaper * Inescapably relevant * The Scotsman * 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 — Daily Mail His virus is far deadlier than Covid-19, but his portrait of a city under siege and his explanations for the spread of the disease . . . are scarily prescient * Observer *