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Hi, everyone,
Today, we will be talking about Peter May’s book, Lockdown, which predicted a global lockdown of cities around the world. When Peter May wrote this book, publishers thought that he was mad and refused to publish the book.
Some years down the line, Peter May’s prediction became a reality that we currently live in today. At the moments, cities around the world are in lockdown and people are restricted to their homes.
The streets are empty, and the pubs are closed. Human activities as we know it has almost come to an end until a cure is found for the virus that is threatening us all.
Before we start this review of Lockdown, I still want to remind you of my novel, The Shadows of Fear. Just follow the imbedded link to view it. You can read the first few chapters for free on Amazon, so why don’t you go take a lot at it?
I’ll also love to read your lockdown stories. As we shelter in, hiding in our homes, a lot of stories are unfolding right before us. I’ll love to read these stories, and I am sure that many readers here are also interested in your story. So, if you have any story, share it with us so that we can all know how we are coping with the Coronavirus situation.
The dystopian novel Lockdown was written by Peter May over fourteen years ago in 2005 concerning a global pandemic lockdown. In the novel, London is the epicenter of the outbreak of a deadly virus that spreads rapidly around the world. The governments of different nations are forced to shut down their cities in a siege-like lockdown that forbids people from coming out to the streets. With an uncanny accuracy, Lockdown reads like a chilling prophecy of our reality today under the COVID-19 pandemic. Nations and cities are locked down and people forced by a bleak reality to maintain social distancing. Peter May, in writing Lockdown, exposes the complexities of human nature as human battles an invincible disease that threatens to kill millions of people.
In 2005, when Peter May wrote this thriller, the publishing houses had scoffed at the idea of a global lockdown and had rejected the novel. The plot of the book was seen as unrealistic and impossible, but today, the world lives in a lockdown caused by the CoronaVirus. Cities are shut down as medical personnel and scientists work round the clock in a desperate race to defeat the virus. Peter May’s thriller Lockdown portrays a world in a bitter war against an enemy that doesn’t wear camouflage. An enemy that doesn’t attack with guns and bombs, but rather, attacks our bodies and turn these bodies to the enemy’s weapon.
The virus in the novel Lockdown isn’t the same as the CoronaVirus, it has a closer resemblance with the bird flu. Though the bird flu-like virus in the novel, Lockdown, is different from the COVID-19 virus, the effect is the same. There is a total lockdown of cities and London is a ghost of its former self as people are forced to stay indoors. Peter May’s novel is made more thrilling and interesting as the plot twist and turn with an element of conspiracy and danger. The virus is the enemy, but there are silhouette individuals and corporations that have a secret to protect concerning the disease. A secret so hideous they are willing to murder anyone that tries to uncover it, though one man will stop at nothing to unravel it.
Lockdown revolves around Detective Jack MacNeil, a Metropolitan police investigator at the twilight of his career with the police department. Detective Jack MacNeil is sent to investigate the possible murder of a little child and find any leads if he can. The case involves the strange discovery of a bag by construction workers working on a temporary hospital project. Inside the bag are the remains of an unidentified child that was possibly murdered in a grand cover-up. As MacNeil investigates the case, it becomes apparent the child was murdered by vicious killers who were out to kill again. Detective MacNeil now finds himself in a race against time as he digs deeper into an investigation that might make him the next victim of the virus or the killers.
Lovers of crime thrillers and conspiracy enthusiasts will find the Lockdown interesting and compelling to read. The Lockdown will also be interesting to those searching for answers concerning the CoronaVirus pandemic lockdown. By writing the Lockdown when he did, which was fifteen years ago, Peter May unwittingly gave us a gift to treasure in this period of global uncertainties. As humanity experiences a global lockdown, Peter May’s book, Lockdown, reads like a prophecy. The chilling similarity between the book and our current reality is frightening and captivating. Peter May’s novel, Lockdown, has shown once more that the line between reality and fiction is blurry.
Published by Quercus Books, Lockdown can be found in bookshops and online stores, and the price is quite affordable. Frankly speaking, the book Lockdown is cheap in comparison to the information it contains concerning what the world is going through today. This book is one crime thriller that is so captivating that the reader is glued to the story until the last page. Peter May has succeeded in a story that rivals other great books like Dean Koontz’ Eyes of Darkness and Stephen King’s The Stand. There is no doubt that with the addition of Lockdown to an impressive list of books, Peter May has written his name in the sands of time. Lockdown will be remembered as the only fictional book that predicted a global pandemic lockdown fifteen years before it happened.
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You can also read the Eyes of Darkness by Dean R. Koontz
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