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Index Case
Index case, in public health, the first case of a disease or other condition that is noticed by health authorities. The index case is sometimes also referred to by the term patient zero. - Encyclopaedia Britannica
INDEX CASE isn't just another novel about a pandemic. It's a pandemic in itself! A thoroughly-researched medical thriller and pre-apocalyptic adventure, a critical analysis of public policy, a survival handbook, a guidebook to some of the historical highlights along the south coast of England, and ultimately a philosophical treatise. All of this wrapped up for the intrepid reader in one gripping novel.
Rob is an epidemiologist, dedicated to fighting disease and all too aware that the UK is unprepared for the deadly pandemic that's about to hit. As he plans how his family will survive, he ponders the traces of long-dead villages and plagues past, and begins to wonder: is it time to be part of the problem, not the solution?
Index Case holds a Black Mirror up to recent times, with dashes of Quatermass, Wyndham, Simon Clark, Christopher and Doctor Who – all the good stuff! Thought-provoking, with lots of cultural touchstones I could relate to.
— Paul Kane, award-winning, #1 bestselling author of Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell and Dark Reflections
Laced with nuanced social observation and eerie visions of horror, Dawson’s Index Case is a paranoiac fever dream for which there’s mercifully no cure!
— Dave Jeffery, Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award nominated author of the a Quiet APOCALYPSE series
Cover by Greg Chapman
INDEX CASE isn't just another novel about a pandemic. It's a pandemic in itself! A thoroughly-researched medical thriller and pre-apocalyptic adventure, a critical analysis of public policy, a survival handbook, a guidebook to some of the historical highlights along the south coast of England, and ultimately a philosophical treatise. All of this wrapped up for the intrepid reader in one gripping novel.
Rob is an epidemiologist, dedicated to fighting disease and all too aware that the UK is unprepared for the deadly pandemic that's about to hit. As he plans how his family will survive, he ponders the traces of long-dead villages and plagues past, and begins to wonder: is it time to be part of the problem, not the solution?
Index Case holds a Black Mirror up to recent times, with dashes of Quatermass, Wyndham, Simon Clark, Christopher and Doctor Who – all the good stuff! Thought-provoking, with lots of cultural touchstones I could relate to.
— Paul Kane, award-winning, #1 bestselling author of Sherlock Holmes and the Servants of Hell and Dark Reflections
Laced with nuanced social observation and eerie visions of horror, Dawson’s Index Case is a paranoiac fever dream for which there’s mercifully no cure!
— Dave Jeffery, Bram Stoker and British Fantasy Award nominated author of the a Quiet APOCALYPSE series
Cover by Greg Chapman
298 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 14, 2026
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