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# Lichfield author’s new novel explores how disease in cats could have a deadly impact on humanity
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/lichfield-authors-new-novel-explores-how-disease-in-cats-could-have-a-deadly-impact-on-humanity/
- Published: 2020-08-12T07:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-03T10:03:02.000Z
- Description: A Lichfield author has released his new book telling the story of how a deadly disease in cats could transfer to humans.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: News

A Lichfield author has released his new book telling the story of how a deadly disease in cats could transfer to humans.

Publication of novel The Tenth Life by Michael J Owen comes in the wake of the news of the first UK cat being diagnosed with coronavirus.

![The Tenth Life book cover](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/tenthlife.jpg)

The story follows the danger of infected cats who have a deadly disease – but which also has the side-effect of developing the level of intelligence of the animal.

> “I have followed the possibility of this type of link for 15 years.  
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> “The idea of animals potentially breeding a virus that would wipe out humanity was born in my mind in 1996 during the BSE scare.  
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> “This story explores the implication of a very localised outbreak and how Government powers are used to create extermination camps and destroy all cats in the area of the first spike.  
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> “It is a view of a future crisis in which the ‘enlightened’ cats seek to halt this danger to their lives and use human friends to fight this ultimate threat to their lives.”  
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> Michael J Owen

The Tenth Life is available in paperback and Kindle edition [on Amazon](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tenth-Life-Michael-John-Owen/dp/B08CM5T8LS/ref=tmm%5Fpap%5Fswatch%5F0?%5Fencoding=UTF8&qid=1596185542&sr=1-1&ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).