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Ken McClure

    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.

    Ken McClure
    The Lazarus Strain
    The Secret
    Wildcard
    The Scorpion's Advance
    White Death
    Hypocrites' Isle
    • 2017

      The Scorpion's Advance

      • 210 pages
      • 8 hours of reading
      4.2(74)Add rating

      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.

      The Scorpion's Advance
    • 2017

      The Devil's Landscape

      • 240 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      3.6(47)Add rating

      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.

      The Devil's Landscape
    • 2013

      Hypocrites' Isle

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      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.

      Hypocrites' Isle
    • 2013

      The Secret

      • 252 pages
      • 9 hours of reading
      4.0(69)Add rating

      Latest title in the Dr Steven Dunbar thriller series.

      The Secret
    • 2009

      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.

      White Death
    • 2007

      The Lazarus Strain

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.9(260)Add rating

      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.

      The Lazarus Strain
    • 2003

      Wildcard

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      4.1(149)Add rating

      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.

      Wildcard