No Way Home

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…

About the Author
Donald McDonald has been writing and telling stories all his life; his imagination being fired by Saturday morning cinema in Worthing and his first hero Black Bob in The Dandy during the fifties.

After the Suez crisis the family moved to Malta and he attended the Royal Naval School, Verdala, where he excelled in sport, and referred to the more academic pupils as ‘wegg-heads’. School reports suggested, ‘He has a rather lethargic attitude to work…’ and later, ‘A lack of seriousness about his studies’ and ‘He would get top grades in comedy, but, that subject is not on the curriculum!’

Donald became a schoolmaster after graduating from Birmingham University’s School of Education, though he has had a variety of jobs including advertising copywriter, assistant cinema manager and scaffolder’s mate.

No Way Home is Donald’s seventh novel published by Brewin Books – his first six novels: The Bridge, For the Glory of Stevenson, A Village Tale, 9/12 Another Day, Dead Submariner and Someone have all garnered five-star reviews on Amazon.

His passion for film, sport, books and art remains intact and he has travelled extensively in Europe and America; no trip to New York is complete without a visit to Madison Square Garden (and he still believes Stanley Ketchel was, pound for pound, the greatest fighter).

He now lives in Lincolnshire and supports Birmingham City FC and Widnes RLFC. His Scottish football team is Motherwell FC.