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| 23 May 2025 | |
| Written by Chloe Sawbridge | |
| Blog |
About the Book
On the anniversary eve of the 9/11 terror attack, New York swelters under a heat dome of record temperatures. Even the global leaders assembled at the UN HQ are forced to admit that the climate crisis has reached boiling point and the world’s time is running out.
That same day, at precisely 5:25 p.m., everyone on Manhattan Island – every man, woman and child, including all the world leaders at the UN – falls unconscious. Everyone that is, except for Samantha Rossi, a single mother reeling from devastating personal news and Nick Lockwood, a wounded NYPD detective who wakes from a coma just as the City That Never Sleeps falls into one.
Rossi’s first concern is her daughter. Lockwood’s is his city. As night draws in, they must work together to unravel the mystery of what has happened and why. Each must decide how far they will go and what lines they will cross to save what matters most to them.
Manhattan Down is a pulse-pounding contemporary thriller which dares to imagine the unimaginable, a leaderless world being held to ransom by forces unknown for reasons unknown. The questions it asks are terrifying – and so are some of the answers.
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About the OKS Author
Michael Cordy attended King’s in Tradescant House from 1974 to 1979. Since leaving King’s, Michael has achieved his BA in English and an MBA from Durham University. After his studies, he led a career in marketing, collaborating with brands like Reckitt Benckiser, United Biscuits and Bacardi Martini.
After ten remarkable years, Michael followed his dream of becoming a writer, which has proved incredibly fruitful. His first novel, The Miracle Strain, about the search for the DNA of Christ, was published in over twenty-five languages and forty countries. It topped The Sunday Times Bestseller List and became a bestseller around the world. Three of his further novels’ film rights have sold to Disney and Warner Bros.
Manhattan Down was published in May 2025 and is available to purchase in bookstores and online.
