Apocalyptic / Vapour Cloud / Insanity

[mextex12]

Hi all, I'm desperately searching for the title author of a book I read some time ago. I think it's set in England, it involves people inhaling some sort of vapour/cloud which causes behavioural changes, I seem specifically to recall something about MPs urinating in public, though there are some more insidious effects. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Thanks in advance.

 

[chrispenycate]

How about (what have I got to lose?) "The Poison Belt", the second of the Professor Challenger books, from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle? Quite a few of the details align.

 

[The Judge]

Damn. I've read "The Poison Belt" recently and didn't twig. (Though I don't recall MPs peeing in public as a result of the vapour -- only the continual arguments and all living things collapsing.)

 

[northernexposure]

I haven't finished it yet, and I doubt if it is the one you refer to, but Nick Harkaway's The Gone Away World is well worth reading!

 

[mextex12]

Well thank you guys for all the suggestions, but it's none of those, perhaps I'm mistaking this vapour for some other whether phenomenon... I know not much to go on.

 

[Ian Whates]

I instantly thought of Fred Hoyle's The Black Cloud which I read an age ago, but I don't recall any urinating MPs, so probably not.