About the book: 2020 / World famous, beloved by critics and the public, Peter May once again surprises readers with his crime thriller, describing a world whose imminent arrival no one could have foreseen and which we all find ourselves in in 2020. “Lockdown” is a masterfully written novel in which every carefully verified fact stands in its place. “Lockdown” is London against the backdrop of a global epidemic. This book, which describes the experience of surviving in a closed city under the threat of a deadly virus, was written in 2005, but 15 years ago it seemed to the publishers an implausible dystopia, and now it surprises and frightens with its verisimilitude, which eerily reminiscent of foresight.