Lockdown: the crime thriller that predicted a world in quarantine
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By May, Peter
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'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.' London. The city is in lockdown in a pandemic. The Prime Minister has died from the viru...s. Martial law is in place. The hospitals and emergency services are overwhelmed. Violence and civil disorder are simmering. An emergency hospital is being constructed in Lambeth when a bag containing the rendered bones of a child is discovered on the site. What is its relevance to the epidemic? Detective John McNeil investigates, grieving for the child he has lost to the disease.
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| ISBN |
9781529411690 |
| Released NZ |
12 May 2020 |
| Publisher |
Quercus Publishing Plc |
| Format |
Paperback |
| Availability |
31 In stock at publisher; delivery usually 15-20 working days due to covid19 delays
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Full details for this title
| ISBN-13 |
9781529411690 |
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| Stock |
Available |
| Status |
In stock at publisher; delivery usually 15-20 working days due to covid19 delays |
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| Publisher |
Quercus Publishing Plc |
| Imprint |
riverrun |
| Released |
12 May 2020
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| Publication Country |
 United Kingdom |
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| Format |
Paperback
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| Author(s) |
By May, Peter |
| Category |
Crime & Mystery Fiction
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| Number of Pages |
416 |
| Dimensions |
Width: 128mm
Height: 196mm
Spine: 32mm |
| Dewey Code |
823.92 |
| Weight |
280g |
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| Interest Age |
General Audience |
| Reading Age |
General Audience |
| Library of Congress |
Conspiracies, Murder - Investigation, Epidemics, Avian influenza, Quarantine |
| NBS Text |
Crime, Thriller & Adventure |
| ONIX Text |
General/trade |
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Awards, Reviews & Star Ratings
| NZ Review |
May ... is a classy crime writer and Lockdown is both prophetic and unnerving * Guardian * |
| UK Review |
Bertrams Star Rating: 4 stars (out of 5) |
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Author's Bio
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 BCC, 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. He has 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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