Ken McClure is an internationally bestselling author renowned for his gripping medical thrillers. His work is deeply informed by his background as an award-winning research scientist, lending his narratives a distinctive accuracy and a reputation for prescient insights. McClure's compelling storytelling draws readers into complex medical scenarios, offering a suspenseful exploration of scientific discovery.
By making a major breakthrough in finding a cure for cancer, Dr. Frank Simmons and his student Gavin are caught up in a desperate situation. As their work is deliberately sabotaged they unearth an industry in a paradox; an industry that can only justify its existence by not curing cancer.
World governments anticipate a terrorist biological attack is imminent. Vaccination is the sole solution, yet developing and producing vaccines is increasingly challenging due to strict trials, regulations, and significant settlements in a litigious society.
Klein's death was as brutally horrifying as it was unexpected.Bacteriologist, Dr Neil Anderson is asked by the hospital authorities to try and discover what disease could possibly have transformed a healthy medical student into a grotesque corpse within hours. His invesitigation uncovers an unlikely link between Klein's routine participation in testing a new drug and the research laboratories of Dr Jacob Strauss, one of the foremost medical scientists of his day.Was Klein's death purely a medical mishap? Or was it, as Anderson begins to suspect, the result of something much more secret - and infinitely more sinister?This book was first published by Collins/Fontana in the UK in 1986 and reissued by Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Ltd, in 1998.Ken McClure is the internationally bestselling author of over twenty medical thrillers such as The Lazarus Strain, The Gulf Conspiracy, White Death and Dust to Dust. His books have been translated into twenty-three languages and he has earned a reputation for the accuracy of his predicitions. McClure's work is informed by his background as an award-winning research scientist with the UK's Medical Research Council.
A traveler dies a horrifying death on a flight from Africa to London. The Ebola virus is suspected, but Steven Dunbar of the Sci-Med Directorate discovers the more frightening truth, and must act quickly before the outbreak achieves its sinister purpose.
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When a research institute is broken into and vandalized, the police believe that it is animal rights activists taking things a step too far. That is until they discover one of the institute's eminent scientists, Tim Devon, brutally murdered. Dr Steven Dunbar, working for the Sci-Med Inspectorate, an elite government agency, is sent to investigate.
Dr Steven Dunbar, ex Special Forces medic and chief investigator with the Sci-Med Inspectorate, comes across apparent interference with front-line medical research in the UK. Funding for Professor Dorothy Lindstrom, a leading neuroscientist who has recently returned home to the UK after a tragic fire took the lives of two of her young colleagues at Yale University, has been completely blocked. Professor Lindstrom, a feisty character who has made more than a few enemies over the years, and her research group, who have been making dramatic progress in the new field of epigenetics which deals with genetic influences on human behaviour are upset and angry but feel helpless. One of the group, Dr Owen Barrowman who has been looking for genetic and biochemical differences in convicted psychopathic killers held in secure establishments across the UK is particularly upset as he believes he is on the brink of a major discovery. He is determined to complete his research before the money runs out despite Steven's warning about the dangers of being continually exposed to evil. His warnings go unheeded with tragic consequences.
Daß der obdachlose Alkoholiker McKirrop aus der Beobachtung einer vermeintlichen Grabschändung Kapital schlagen will, wird ihm zum Verhängnis. Auf der Station für Schädelverletzungen stirbt er unter mysteriösen Umständen, die die behandelnde junge Assistenzärztin nicht ruhen lassen, zumal noch andere unerklärliche Umstände dazukommen. Zusammen mit 2 Verbündeten macht sie sich an die Aufklärung. Steckt tatsächlich Satanismus dahinter, wie McKirrop alle glauben machen wollte, oder eher heimlicher Handel mit menschlichen Organen? Oder besteht ein Zusammenhang mit der Erfindung eines revolutionären neuen Impfstoffes durch den Klinik-Chef und dessen Bruder? Was die 3 am Ende enthüllen, läßt ihn das Blut in den Adern gerinnen. Wie schon die bisher angezeigten 4 Romane des in Edinburgh lebenden Wissenschaftlers und Autors ist auch dieser thematisch (Genforschung und medizinische Ethik) höchst aktuell und darüber hinaus packend und überzeugend geschrieben
In einem Krankenhaus in Leeds kommt es nach Operationen in der Gynäkologie zu mysteriösen Infektionen mit Todesfolge. Deren Chefarzt liegt mit dem Leiter der mikrobiologischen Abteilung in erbitterter Fehde. Scott Jamieson, ein junger Experte in Diensten des Medizinischen Kontrollausschusses in London, soll die Ursache der Infektionen finden Ausser den Zuständen in der Klinik beunruhigen ihn eine Reihe von ungeklärten Morden an Prostituerten.
