Tick Tock Av Simon Mayo

<p><b><i>''</i>A slice of scary, escapist fun''</b><i>Observer</i><br><b>''The twists and turns are never-ending'' </b><i>Daily Mail</i><br><b>''An unnervingly plausible and scintillatingly paced thriller'' </b><i>Radio Times</i><br><b>''A phenomenal thriller, meticulously plotted and brilliantly realised''</b> Clare Mackintosh, Books of the Year<br><b>_______________________________</b><br><br><b>If you can hear it, your time is running out.</b><br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>But their investigation throws up more questions than answers until they realise the myster

'A phenomenal thriller, meticulously plotted and brilliantly realised' Clare Mackintosh, Books of the YearIt 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. ------------------------------------------------------------Readers are loving Tick Tock'Well, BBC Radio presenter Simon Mayo sure can write a darned good thriller!''Another cracking read from a man of many talents''An excellent conspiracy theory thriller, it's exciting, full of danger...it's riveting and hard to put down''A cracker of a read and another winner from Simon Mayo!''I read it over two evenings, both times staying up far later than normal as I didn't want to put it 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.'