Tick Tock
  • Published: 17 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804991091
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00

Tick Tock

A Times Thriller of the Year

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17 Oct 2023
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16 Aug 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?
  • Published: 17 October 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804991091
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Simon Mayo

Simon Mayo is a writer and broadcaster. He is the presenter of the podcast Simon Mayo’s Books of the Year, a daily host on Scala Radio and co-presenter of Kermode and Mayo’s Film Review for the BBC. His previous books include Mad Blood Stirring, Blame and the Itch trilogy, filmed for TV by ABC.

Knife Edge is his debut contemporary thriller.

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Praise for Tick Tock

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

Cleverly and credibly, Mayo turns his medical thriller into something of a spy thriller...[the] dialogue is a joy throughout

Sunday Times