Lockdown

In Peter May’s Lockdown, Detective Inspector Jack MacNeil is sent into the epicentre of a deadly pandemic to solve the murder of a child. The thriller that predicted the lockdown…

In Peter May’s thriller Lockdown, London is the epicentre of a global pandemic. Violence and unrest lurk everywhere and no one is safe from the deadly virus that has already claimed thousands of lives. Hospitals are overcrowded, emergency services powerless.

Detective Jack MacNeil has resigned from the police force, is going through a divorce and is worried about his son, who seems to have contracted the virus. On his last day, he is sent out to solve the murder of a child after a bag of bones is found on a construction site for a makeshift hospital. The ruthless perpetrator does everything he can to thwart MacNeil and in a deserted London a race against time begins. Who will stop MacNeil first: the killer, or the virus?

'May is a first-rate thriller writer, and Lockdown is both prophetic and unnerving.' – The Guardian