About the book: 2008 / A technological miracle was built in Belfast - the new Titanic. 13-year-old Jimmy Armstrong's great-great-grandfather drowned on the old Titanic in 1912, and since then everything in their family has gone wrong. Bully and poor student Jimmy, who has just been expelled from school for bad behavior, secretly sneaks aboard an empty airliner. He just wants to impress his classmates with his courage, but the Titanic sets sail, and Jimmy, willy-nilly, has to go through many adventures at sea and on land with his new girlfriend, the daughter of the ship's owner, Claire. And then a terrible epidemic began all over the world, leading to the end of Our Habitual Civilization... “Colin Bateman, along with Edgar Poe, Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie, rightfully occupies a place in the list of the 50 best authors of the detective genre” (Daily Telegraph).