No Way Home - Donald McDonald

The world didn’t know it but circa 2027/28 a pandemic would erupt, killing 2-4 million people daily and for which there was no vaccine, despite the efforts of scientists worldwide. Mankind’s grip on planet Earth was tenuous. Hope was lost, or was it?Two men, a black G.I. and an Englishman had stood on the gallows, in June 1944 and the mid-50s, respectively. Having been reprieved both sought a different life, one of which would take the G.I. to work in a leper colony in Northern Kenya from 1945 alongside a doctor. It was here that the antidote to the future virus may well have been discovered, but which had remained unknown to the outside world because the earlier potential pandemic had been culled in its infancy. Over 70 years later, this virus would emerge again. Before then, Walter Simpkiss, having served most of his life in prison, is released, and wants to find this G.I. for he had to know something…