The chillingly accurate story of what happens when an unknown flu-like virus hits the Western world. It's all there – the masks, the lockdown, politicians in denial ... The only thing it didn't predict was that the virus would have the name of a Mexican beer.

By the author of A Year in the Merde and 1000 Years of Annoying the French.

A dark comedy about the start of a pandemic, told by the fatally naive Bernie Bridges, who dodges between a glamorous government minister, a depressed female police inspector, and a deadly (but weirdly immune) French model as he tells us how he's avoiding the corpses, corruption and accusations flying all around him.

Death Goes Viral is a knockabout comedy, but it is also a serious novel that depicts a government using fake news and false promises to manipulate public opinion during a virus outbreak, and a massive corporation trying to get a stranglehold on the planet's health. It is about trying to distinguish, in a world where everyone communicates to everyone else all the time, between your "friends" and your friends.