Tick tock

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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, contained groups of people, young and old, and suddenly it’s a plague – and ten days later it’s killing people. The hospitals are overflowing and there is no cure. There is a paranoid panic which sets friend against friend, neighbour against neighbour. Where does the world go from here? In the north London school where it is first discovered, head of English, Kit Chaplin is struggling to understand what he is witnessing. Even eminent bacteriologist and his partner Lilly Slater can’t help him. But as the virus rips through the school and into the outside world, the world starts to take notice.

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A slice of scary, escapist fun’ Observer
‘The twists and turns are never-ending’ Daily Mail
‘An unnervingly plausible and scintillatingly paced thriller’ Radio Times
‘A phenomenal thriller, meticulously plotted and brilliantly realised’ Clare Mackintosh, Books of the Year
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If you can hear it, your time is running out.

Teacher Kit Chaplin can’t understand why some students at his north London school are experiencing an extreme ticking noise in their ears. Perhaps it’s just a severe form of tinnitus? But only days later, it spreads to more students – and starts leaving bodies in its wake.

Eminent vaccinologist Lilly Slater has never seen anything like this before. She must race against the clock to work out what is happening – and to find a cure.

But their investigation throws up more questions than answers until they realise the mystery behind the illness is even bigger than they could have imagined…

Will the truth behind this catastrophe become clear before it’s too late?
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Readers are loving Tick Tock

‘Well, BBC Radio presenter Simon Mayo sure can write a darned good thriller!’
‘An excellent conspiracy theory thriller, it’s exciting, full of danger… it’s riveting and hard to put down’
‘I was utterly gripped and read this in one sitting! I could feel the tension and fear in every page – loved it!’
‘Never has there been a more timely thriller! I was gripped from the first page. I was so immersed, I read it in one night.’

Additional information

Weight 0.251 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.7 × 2.2 cm
Author

Publisher

Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

357

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K