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Authors: Ken McClure

Tags: #False Arrest, #Fiction, #Human, #Fertilization in Vitro, #Infanticide, #Physicians

THE LAZARUS STRAIN

EYE OF THE RAVEN

THE GULF CONSPIRACY

WILDCARD

DECEPTION

DONOR

 

 

 

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HYPOCRITES’ ISLE

PAST LIVES

RESURRECTION

PANDORA’S HELIX

TRAUMA

CHAMELEON

CRISIS

REQUIEM

PESTILENCE

FENTON’S WINTER

THE SCORPION’S ADVANCE

THE TROJAN BOY

THE ANVIL

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

 

KEN McCLURE is an award-winning medical scientist as well as a global selling author. He was born and brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he studied medical sciences and cultivated a career that has seen him become a prize-winning researcher in his field. Using this strong background to base his thrillers in the world of science and medicine, he is currently the author of twenty-four novels and his work is available across the globe in over twenty languages. He has visited and stayed in many countries in the course of his research but now lives in the county of East Lothian, just outside Edinburgh.

 

www.kenmcclure.com

REVIEWS

 

‘His medical thrillers out-chill both Michael Crichton and Robin Cook.’

Daily Telegraph
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‘McClure writes the sort of medical thrillers which are just too close to plausibility for comfort.’

( Eye of the Raven)
Birmingham Post
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‘Well wrought, plausible and unnerving.’

(Tangled Web)
The Times

 

‘A plausible scientific thriller … McClure is a rival for Michael Crichton.’

(The Gulf Conspiracy)
Peterborough Evening Telegraph
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‘Contemporary and controversial, this is a white knuckle ride of a thriller.’

(Past Lives)
Scottish Field
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‘Ken McClure looks set to join the A list at the top of the medical thriller field.’

The Glasgow Herald
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‘McClure’s intelligence and familiarity with microbiology enable him to make accurate predictions. Using his knowledge, he is deciding what could happen, then showing how it might happen … It is McClure’s creative interpretation of the material that makes his books so interesting.’

The Guardian
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‘Ken McClure explains contagious illness in everyday language that makes you hold your breath in case you catch them. His forte is to take an outside chance possibility, decide on the worst possible outcome … and write a book.’

The Scotsman

 

‘Original in conception … its execution is brilliantly done … plot and sub plot are structured with skill … the whole thing grabs the attention as it hurtles to its terrifying climax.’

(Requiem)
Independent Newspapers (Ireland).

 

‘Absolutely enthralling.’

(Crisis) Medical Journal

 

‘Pacy thrillers from Scotland’s own Michael Crichton.’

Aberdeen Evening Express

COPYRIGHT

 

First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster Ltd. in 2000

 

Copyright © Ken Begg, 2000

 

ISBN 0-684-86044-9

 

 

Table of Contents

PROLOGUE

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

SEVENTEEN

EIGHTEEN

NINETEEN

TWENTY

TWENTY ONE

TWENTY TWO

TWENTY THREE

TWENTY FOUR

TWENTY FIVE

TWENTY SIX

TWENTY SEVEN

TWENTY EIGHT

TWENTY NINE

THIRTY

Epilogue

THE END

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