Friday night in Shoreditch turns to police tape and panic in minutes. An attacker in a nightclub doesn’t bruise or beg—he bites. Sergeant Daniel Kerr, MO19 armed response, puts one round to the head and watches his partner rise again with blood in his eyes. The rules change on the floor of a bar.
Streets clog. Paramedics are dragged down. Stations fail behind unlocked doors. Kerr fights from doorway to squad car and learns the only truths that bites turn people in under a minute; body shots do nothing; headshots stop the threat; isolate the bitten or lose everyone.
With the city splitting, Kerr raids a deserted armoury for rifles, meds, and batteries, while voices on Airwave thin out to names that never answer. Control issues one order that cuts through the respond to a sustained attack at the Barbican; NHS staff are trapped; make a lane or bring them out.
Trojan Part One is a tight, procedural survival novella—close quarters, clear stakes, no safety net, as an ARV officer tries to hold a line that no longer exists.