Book description
The second brilliant novel from the author of The Levels - Sean Cregan.
In Newport City men and women walk the streets, their lives literally
ticking away. The Clocks are victims of a new serial crime, their
existence kept secret by the authorities for fear of panic spreading
through the city. Kidnapped by the mysterious Curator and subjected to
the Curse - a medical procedure which ensures a fatal drug will be
released into their nervous system one year after implantation - they
are headed for certain death. But now they are fighting back. A suicidal
Clock, determined to bring their plight to the public's attention, has
detonated a bomb. Journalist Maya Cassinelli, whose ex-boyfriend is one
of the dead, and cop Charlie Garrett, whose Clock girlfriend is about to
die, are on a desperate search for answers, closely shadowed by members
of the elite Foundation, who want control of the Curse's revolutionary
and lucrative bio-technology. With everyone hunting the Cure, who will
find it first? The Clocks are ticking... Sean started writing at
university as a way of escaping his engineering degree, before becoming
a trade journalist working out of a brick shed. He writes full time, and
published four novels under his real name, before changing style,
content, publisher and identity to something much more fun. He's a
single dad and lives on the south coast with his little boy. He has
never owned a cat, and each year more and more of them go missing in his
neighbourhood.
