Stay indoors, you risk infection…
… go outdoors and you could get killed.
Teenager Dolph Carter faces this dilemma. The COVID-20 virus has put Chrome Valley on lockdown, and forced him and his family to quarantine at home.
Inside, Carter’s infected father self-isolates in the bedroom. His grandmother and sister are at each other’s throats as cabin fever sets in.
Outside, the valley is … cabin fever sets in.
Outside, the valley is tearing itself apart. The authorities closed the schools and laid-off workers, and now it’s brought out the worst in us — stores looted, homes invaded, and people robbed — all for the bare necessities we took for granted just last month.
The government abandoned their promises. They’ve demanded social distancing–and now they’ve got it.
Armed with an oxygen mask and a crowbar, Carter braves the lawless streets of Chrome Valley to gather food and essentials for his family. It’s a dangerous journey that will land him in the clutches of violent profiteers and criminal gangs, all with nothing to lose. Carter may never see his family again — but will they recognize the once-optimistic young man if he ever makes it back?
My Corona is a timely blast of anger at our world leaders, and their handling of the real COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic. Barricade your home, self-isolate, and get your copy of this nerve-shredding thriller now.
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So Good, Yet So Bad, It’s Totally Out There! Fantastic! Being quarantined to my house and reading this book, I’m so glad it’s a wacky story by an unusual author. This book could be real! I definitely could see this happening in the major cities ground zero.
A lot of this book is point on and it’s an eye opener to what is really happening in the world. Then you add the imagination of a very talented, half crazy author and you have a storyline that some will love and some will hate. I personally loved it!
Stay Home! Be Safe! Be Well!
My Corona is another enjoyable read by Andrew Mackay, it’s set in Chrome Valley and if you’ve read his other books in the series you’d realise how devastating an infectious virus would be in the poorer end of town. The story is based around a teenage boy, his family, friends and neighbours and how they cope with isolation, hoarding and the lack of medical supplies and staff. There is a lot of action, reflection and desperation on the part of the main characters and all the twists, turns and unexpected endings that I’ve come to expect from Mackay’s thrillers. It’s a great read and I recommend it to anyone whose looking for an interesting, unputdownable diversion.
As a vicious virus spreads across the earth from the Chuken province of China and countries act quickly and defensively to keep it from crossing their borders, Great Britain drools in the wake of Brexit, the City of London casually betting on which economies will go belly-up first. Hedge fund managers prop their Italian loafers on their desktops while frantic television reporters shriek angrily about the City’s unfettered venality to an apathetic audience in that strange and terrible place known as Chrome Valley.
As the tousle-haired terrorist issues stentorian herd immunity proclamations from Downing Street, Randolph Carter and his friend Dean Brayker make their way home as the Valley folds up in lockdown. They watch gangs in gas masks shatter storefronts and steal medical supplies, while Dolph’s mother, Ophelia, a nurse at Waddling Gate Hospital, is escorted to a front-row seat as the apocalypse unfolds. A bum named Charlie wanders into A&E, collapsing in the poisonous effluvium of COVID-20 and unleashing the demon that will finally drag Chrome Valley into the deepest depths of Hell. Ophelia is called to tend to Charlie, and as she drags him to a treatment theater – the hospital has run out of stretchers — she faintly hears the hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen, although she doesn’t yet recognize the sound.
Home, a cramped house on the rough side of Chrome Valley, is no shelter, with Dolph’s venomous grandmother blaming Ophelia for her son’s illness — Dolph’s father is quarantined in the master bedroom — and shrieking ignorant invective at her grandchildren, which drives Dolph and Brayker to wander the streets despite a police-enforced curfew. The cops are soon supplanted by the COVID-20 Special Force military subdivision as a tent hospital is erected and Waddling Gate Hospital is declared contaminated beyond repair, while not far away lurk the lime trucks, parked alongside an empty field as the overnight brokers in the City bet billions in a worldwide game of Monopoly, shuffling Get Out of Jail Free cards to each other as the citizens of Chrome Valley run out of time, hemmed in by armed barricades blocking every exit out of town and precisely plotted mass graves awaiting their corpses, because Chrome Valley and its citizens are the sacrificial lambs of COVID-20. No one gets out alive.
As society collapses in a fever dream around them, felled by gangster bullets, Molotov cocktails, or the inescapable “Chinese AIDS,” Dolph and Brayker watch their bleak world grow ever bleaker. Rival gangs threaten mayhem as the teens try to maintain a semblance of decency — rescuing an elderly Asian couple from a Chinese takeaway, tending to Dolph’s dying father, trying to stop the gangsters from immolating the west side with their gasoline bombs — but the virus still grabs them in its bony claws and drags them to their death. Their screams and moans are muffled by the sound of the moneychangers on international calls between Wall Street and the City, betting billions on who will live and who will die, just distant decimal points to the men and women in green eyeshades.
And with the ever-present beat of The Knack echoing throughout the valley as soldiers spread lime over dead bodies and riddle gangsters with machine gun fire as they try to ram through a barricade to the virus-free haven of Hoarders Point, while disease riddled-neighbors scream My Corona as they shed skin and bone skidding across tarmac and vomiting streams of snot and gore as neighbors gurgle the lyrics, Chrome Valley finally dies in a bloody blaze of vomit, prejudice, and hatred. The Four Horsemen silently circle the town, their skeletal grins covering it in everlasting darkness.
Here is a book that will lead you by the hand to show just how screwed the socialist agenda is. You hear now about a unmentioned Governor here who holds constant press conferences now wanting to do what this book speaks of. Wake up people herd immunity won’t work