Beat the Devil

<b>A searing account of seventeen days during the pandemic.</b> <p/> <p/><i>Covid-19 seems to be a sort of dirty bomb thrown into the body to cause havoc.</i> <p/><br>On the same day that the UK government finally made the first of two decisive interventions that led to a conspicuously late lockdown David Hare contracted Covid-19. Nobody seemed to know much about it then and many doctors are not altogether sure they know much more today. Suffering a pageant of apparently random symptoms Hare recalls the delirium of his illness which mixed with fear dream honest medicine and dishonest politics to create a monologue of furious urgency and power.