Tick Tock: A Times Thriller of the Year 2022

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Exciting, urgently contemporary and piercingly insightful, Tick Tock is the ultimate race against time thriller from bestselling author Simon Mayo. If you can hear it, your time is running out. 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. 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. But their investigation throws up more questions than answers until they realise the mystery behind the illness is even bigger than they could have imagined... Will the truth behind this catastrophe become clear before it's too late

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Tick Tock is an unnervingly plausible and scintillatingly paced thriller * Radio Times *
Thrilling * Shots Magazine *
Cracking * Peterborough Telegraph *
The characters are well observed, the dialogue effortless and the twists and turns never-ending * Daily Mail *
Mayo spools out his many twists and turns skillfully. A slice of scary, escapist fun * Observer *

Author Bio

Simon Mayo MBE is a writer and broadcaster. His previous books include the Sunday Times bestseller Knife Edge, Mad Blood Stirring, Blame and the Itch trilogy, filmed for TV by the ABC. He hosts Drivetime on Greatest Hits Radio and hosts the 'The Take' film-review podcast with Professor Mark Kermode.