Lockdown

Name: Lockdown
Rating: 4.489177703857422 (231 reviews)

Sean Black

Jun 2019 · Ryan Lock Book 1 · SBD Publishing

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Christmas Eve in New York, but for ex-military bodyguard Ryan Lock it's business as usual. His task: to protect the head of one of America's most powerful corporations.

But when a bloody massacre leaves bodies littering the streets of midtown Manhattan, Lock's hunt for the killers turns into an explosive game of cat and mouse.

"Hold on tight - this one burns like a lit fuse" - Gregg Hurwitz, Internationally Bestselling Author of Orphan X

"An impressive debut novel featuring one of the finest female villains since Ian Fleming's Rosa Klebb...this is a writer, and a hero, to watch" - The Daily Mail

"Sean Black writes with the pace of Lee Child, and the heart of Harlan Coben. Lockdown is a sure-fire winner" - Joseph Finder, New York Times Bestselling Author of Buried Secrets

"Funny, tough, and furiously paced, Lockdown explodes off the page" - Jesse Kellerman

"Supremely slick...An excellent first novel" - The Daily Telegraph

Christmas Eve in New York, but for ex-military bodyguard Ryan Lock it's business as usual. His task: to protect the head of one of America's most powerful corporations. But when a bloody massacre leaves bodies littering the streets of midtown Manhattan, Lock's hunt for the killers turns into an e...

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231 reviews

Theresa Briney

March 18, 2026

Sorry, but when the first few chapters have so many misspellings and grammatical errors that it's like reading a 3rd graders book report, you just have to shake your head and quit reading.

Sherman Deeds

July 27, 2017

Lots of twists and turns. Some you see coming, some you don't! Action packed every step of the way!

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Angella Cotter

June 11, 2018

These are new books for me, never heard of them until I read this book. It was amazing and I will be sure to read more

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About the author

To research his books, Sean Black has trained as a bodyguard in the UK and Eastern Europe, spent time inside America's most dangerous Supermax prison, Pelican Bay in California, undergone desert survival training in Arizona, and ventured into the tunnels under Las Vegas.

A graduate of Oxford University, England and Coiumbia University in New York, Sean lives in Dublin, Ireland.

His Ryan Lock and Byron Tibor thrillers have been translated into Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portugese, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

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