Do not buy Deadlock...

...if any of these apply to you:

1. You enjoy long, meandering works of fiction where nothing much happens.
2. You have to be up for work the next day having had a full night's sleep.
3. You lack a sense of humour.
4. You believe that a book can't be be up to much if you actually understand it.
5. You travel by bus, train, or underground and want to get off at the correct stop.
6. You get more upset by entirely fictional people being injured or killed than when it happens in real life.
7. You think that Deadlock gives white supremacists and neo-nazis a bad rap.
8. You were at school/university/work with me and hate the idea of someone you know having a chance of hitting the Sunday Times Bestseller list.
9. You are easily offended by sometimes crass humour or a lack of political correctness (if you think what's in the book is bad, you should see the lines my editor made me take out).
10. You think that heart-stopping, blood-pumping, adrenaline-fueled thrillers filled with violence (a lot) and sex (not that much really) exemplify all that's wrong with the world today.

Otherwise, this Thursday the 12th of May, at Asda, Tesco, Sainsburys, Morrisons, WH Smith, WH Smith Travel, Waterstones, and online and in independent bookstores across the UK - fill your boots.

And to the tens of thousands of people who went out and bought Lockdown last year, thank you!

Sean