Ken McClure es un autor superventas internacional, reconocido por sus emocionantes thrillers médicos. Su trabajo está profundamente informado por su experiencia como científico investigador galardonado, lo que otorga a sus narrativas una precisión distintiva y una reputación de perspicacia premonitoria. La cautivadora narrativa de McClure atrae a los lectores a escenarios médicos complejos, ofreciendo una exploración llena de suspense del descubrimiento científico.
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.
Latest title in the Dr Steven Dunbar thriller series.
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.
Manželé Palmerovi jsou podezřelí z vraždy své tělesně postižené holčičky. Jejich přítel a lékař Tom je jediný, kdo věří, že zločin nespáchali. Tom se spolu s doktorkou Mary pouští do pátrání na vlastní pěst. Stopy je zavedou až na kliniku pro léčbu neplodnosti, kde Palmerovi podstoupili umělé oplodnění. Vtom na veřejnost pronikne šokující sdělení o smrti dalšího děvčátka…... celý text
Na onkologickém oddělení městské nemocnice má být vyzkoušena nová metoda léčby rakoviny - genová terapie. V průběhu klinických zkoušek pozornost tisku uputají podivná úmrtí dvou dívek. Zprvu se zdá, že zemřely na virový zápal plic, ale pitva odhalí nádory na plicích, které jsou tak četné, že mohly vzniknout jen při intenzívním styku s neobyčejně účinným karcinogenem.... celý text
Gavin se na univerzitě v Edinburghu věnuje výzkumu rakoviny. Jeho nestandardní postupy ho přivedou na způsob, jak nově využít cenný lék, který byl před dvaceti lety stažen z trhu. Z průlomu se raduje už i proto, že s touto nemocí bojuje matka jeho přítelkyně Caroline. K jeho úžasu neprojeví nikdo z odborníků ani firem o účinný lék zájem. Proč se někteří snaží zabránit mu v dalším výzkumu?
