LONDON 2027. Terrorists deploy a highly sophisticated nerve agent called LondonBlack at Waterloo station - for an unfortunate section of the population, what follows is agonising physical deterioration and usually death.
LONDON 2029. DI Lucy Stone is called in to investigate the gruesome murder of thescientist who developed an antidote to the nerve agent. It is a daily boost, making lifebearable for the 'Vulnerables' - but isn't a cure.
Lucy suspects the scientist might have been working on a permanent solution to thenerve agent. If she can recover it, she might permanently end the bane of LondonBlack for herself and the other Vulnerables.But is the antidote real, or a figment of Lucy's desperation? And can she solve the casebefore her daily boosts - already beginning to lose their effect - leave her defencelessagainst the horrors of London Black?
Thriller / suspense fiction
Hardback
Jack Lutz
352 pages
H: 216mm W: 135mm