The Undrowned
The Undrowned
London: the threat of another pandemic looms. And Sebastian, a journalist searching for his colleagues who have disappeared on a mission in West Africa, may hold the secret to it all.
After surviving a life-threatening encounter with the new disease, Sebastian's troubles get worse. As he fights to discover what's happened to his friends, he realises that there are powerful forces pursuing him: a posse
of fake nurses want his blood -
and the police want to find him guilty of
murder.
And when he travels back to Africa to find out what has happened to his friends, he is forced to confront a presence yet more terrifying: the mythical, malevolent warlord who haunts the imagination of everyone who encounters him - Khai Manni.
For fans of Graham Greene and John Le Carre, The Undrowned is a story of courage, mystery and paranoia in a world that may be spinning completely out of control.
The Times:
“This novel is about utter loneliness, the isolation of being like no one else and with no safe place to go. This is a page-turner that provokes, then moves the reader. A novel that made me laugh on the first page had me sitting in awed silence by the end. The Undrowned is a keeper.”
The Telegraph:
"Vieira confidently transplants the exploits of a mid-century hero to the current moment, and with it reveals something impressively desolate. This might be the first piece of art that deals deftly with the idea of a pandemic without recalling something unbearable. Instead, The Undrowned shows a different kind of isolation – one that occurs most disconcertingly from the self.”