'The best kind of thriller - step by all-too-plausible step we're sucked into frantic, breathless action ... Perfect." LEE CHILD You never know where danger may come from... 6.45am. A sweltering London rush hour. And in the last 27 minutes, seven people have been murdered. In a series of coordinated attacks, seven men and women across London have been targeted. For journalist Famie Madden, the horror unfolds as she arrives for the morning shift. The victims have one thing in common: they make up the investigations team at the news agency where Famie works. The question everyone’s asking: what were they working on that could prompt such brutal devastation? As Famie starts to receive mysterious messages, she must find out whether she is being warned of the next attack, or being told that she will be the next victim...

サイモン・メイヨーが描く本作の真髄は、息つく暇もない速度感と、ジャーナリズムの現場を襲う「沈黙の暴力」の対比にあります。日常が崩壊する恐怖を猛暑のロンドンの熱気と共に叩きつける筆致は見事です。情報を扱う者の矜持と孤独が核にあり、真実の追求が死に直結する現代社会の脆弱性を鋭く抉り出しています。 主人公が直面するのは、物理的脅威のみならず情報の不確かな境界線です。緻密な伏線は読者を当事者へと変貌させ、最後の一頁まで「次は自分か」という戦慄を維持させます。冷徹なリアリズムと情熱的な正義感が激突する、まさに刃の上を歩くような緊密な文学体験がここにあります。