Tick Tock: A Times Thriller of the Year 2022

Description

The stunning new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Knife Edge. Exciting, urgently contemporary and piercingly insightful, it more than confirms the promise of Mayo's bestselling and acclaimed first thriller. It starts quietly enough. A tick-tick-ticking you can hear in your ear. Tinnitus, you think. It will pass. But it doesn't. It gets worse - and then you pass it on. Before you know it, it spreads. Elsewhere across the globe, it emerges- small outbreaks at first, but then suddenly it's a plague - and only days later it is already killing people. In an increasingly affected north London school, teacher Kit Chaplin is struggling to understand what he is witnessing. Even Lilly Slater, his partner and an eminent vaccinologist, can't work out what's happening. As it spreads, little by little, they are inexorably drawn into the mystery behind the illness. And what they discover will change the world as they know it... Exciting and urgently contemporary, this piercingly insightful novel tells the story of a global catastrophe through the eyes of the three people at the heart of the storm.

Simon Mayo MBE is a writer and broadcaster. His previous books include the Sunday Times bestseller Knife Edge, Mad Blood Stirring, Blame and the Itch trilogy, filmed for TV by the ABC. He hosts Drivetime on Greatest Hits Radio and hosts the 'The Take' film-review podcast with Professor Mark Kermode.

Tick Tock is an unnervingly plausible and scintillatingly paced thriller * Radio Times * Thrilling * Shots Magazine * Cracking * Peterborough Telegraph * The characters are well observed, the dialogue effortless and the twists and turns never-ending * Daily Mail * Mayo spools out his many twists and turns skillfully. A slice of scary, escapist fun * Observer *