★★★★★ "Gripped from start to finish. This would certainly make a brilliant film."— Verified UK purchase ★★★★★ "One of those books that stays with you — emotional, thought-provoking, and painfully relevant."— Verified UK purchase ★★★★★ "I'm going to be up all night with this page turner. An absolute must read."— Verified UK purchase
His blood could save the world. That's why they want him dead.
The war is over. The killing isn't.
Years after World War III, a mutated cancer is finishing what the bombs started. It spreads faster than rumour, kills within weeks, and has no treatment. Governments have collapsed. Cities stand empty. Humanity has stopped counting on a cure.
Then Harry Grey walks into a medical exam and changes everything.
He's nobody. A quiet man trying to keep his daughter safe in a world that's given up. But his results come back wrong, impossibly wrong. His blood doesn't just fight the disease.
It destroys it.
Within hours, his name is on every kill list on the planet. Governments want to replicate what's inside him. Corporations want him buried. And a growing extremist movement believes the dying world is exactly what humanity deserves, and that Harry Grey is the only thing standing in the way.
He has no allies. No plan. No training.
Just his daughter. And a secret buried deeper in his blood that will change everything, again.
Because Harry isn't the only one who carries the cure.
And the world is almost out of time.
For fans of Children of Men, The Last of Us, and Station Eleven, a relentlessly propulsive, emotionally raw thriller about how far one ordinary man will go when everything depends on him.
Quite a good story, but no explanation for the reason why Harry's blood is so special. I did race through the book, skimming over the angst and soppy stuff! Unfortunately, the threat of nuclear war at the moment makes the book's scenario rather more unsettling. I think I'll read some light-hearted stuff next!