Epidemic

By Mr Quentin Cope

EPIDEMIC. 'Billy was not a brutal man ... but he was capable of brutal things!'It all started with a WWII tunnel and a promise from a liar. However, for SS Engineer Major Karl Langer it would end in horror with the cruel mass murder of skeleton souls buried alive in the inky blackness of a tomb from hell. It's the 21st Century and ambitious top criminal Billy Bright meets an engaging French aristocrat who has drawings of the tunnel. Billy plans to make a new excavation from England and meet up with the original Nazi workings. The unbelievable horror is about to begin. A mass of several million giant, blind rats are released attacking everything with a heartbeat. The armed forces are tasked with holding a perimeter line in the path of the roaming rodent hoards and shoot every single animal; but will it be enough? Blustering Prime Minster Randolph 'Randy' Francis is not in complete control. A game of high stakes politics is about to begin. The animals carry an unknown HIV related virus and infections quickly ramp up into an epidemic, stirring memories of a not too distant COVID assault on a still fragile nation.World leading virologist Felicity Green is in Bangkok at a conference begging for research funding by day and new levels of sexual depravity by night. Dragged back to Edinburgh by Professor Langton Davies she is paired with handsome German gene slicing specialist Marvin Engel. There is no doubt Marvin had a fine brain, but he sure as hell possessed something else; something that pressed most, if not all of Felicity Greens buttons. The Edinburgh team is now charged with finding a vaccine to tackle the rampaging viral epidemic.As the death toll rises in a country held in limbo, a form of Martial Law is declared. Pressure on the politicians is increasing, forcing 'Randy' to gag the Press. But something bad is now happening in the UK as the PM gives permission to set fire to a large area of the southern counties. The 'cat' looks now to be completely 'out of the bag'!EU leaders, and feisty President Francesca Garcia, demands assurances ... or else they will blockade the British Isles, putting a whole nation in economic lockdown. The Americans, firmly in the mix with threats from an unhinged President, tell the EU he thinks they should simply 'nuke' everybody. With a blockade in place, the British Prime Minister is forced to retaliate, and some patrolling French and Italian submarines, in British waters are the chosen target. But will a nervous and politically precarious 'Randy' Francis finally agree to an action that could kick off another European war?Such an explosive situation can only have one outcome as President Dwight Barker finally takes matters into his own hands. A nuclear missile submarine stands to in the Atlantic Ocean. Barker gives the order. This must be the end ... or is it?EPIDEMIC is a fast moving political and psychological suspense thriller connecting the horror of secret Nazi projects in WWII with a modern world of corrupt affairs of state and threats of epidemic disease. It lays bare the responsibilities of government and the fraudulent public school politics that can often define it. You will be locked into this particular thriller from the very first page!It started with a promise from a liar. It ended in vengeful bear-pit politics and a gamble with the lives of a nation!

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08CPLDDWQ
• ISBN13: 9798665674131
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 8.0"