Dr. Michael Neef, consultant in pediatric oncology at a large city hospital, is cautiously optimistic when he is given the go-ahead to carry out gene therapy trials on some of his terminally ill young patients. For the biotechnology company involved ...
A half dead man crashes his car at the Iraqi border. He is picked up by a British patrol and found to have suffered a rare reaction to the smallpox vaccine. But why are the Iraqis inoculating their population against a disease which has been wiped ou...
Medical thriller writer Ken McClure evokes a sinister world where no life is sacred -- least of all a baby's. Used to the sleepy tranquility of village life in rural Wales, the residents of Felinbach are shocked by the brutal killing of a local bab...
When a vaccine designed by British scientists becomes contaminated in a freak accident, military leaders decide that it must remain a secret. Twelve years later veterans are dying from a ‘Gulf War Syndrome'. Dr George Sebring, the British scientist...
Dr. Steven Dunbar works for Sci-Med Inspectorate, and elite government agency charged with investigating hi-tech crime relating to the world of science and medicine. He is therefore bemused when the deathbed confession of a convicted psychopath lands...
When successful neurosurgeon John MacAndrews performs a routine operation to remove a tumor, the patient undergoes a severe personality change post-surgery. Hartman's Tumor is diagnosed, a rare condition which leaves its victims deranged and destined...
When the Crick Research Institute is broken into, the police believe that it was Animal Rights activists taking things a step too far. But one of the Institute's top scientists, Tim Devon, is found brutally murdered and six research monkeys have been...
The governments of the world know a terrorist biological attack will happen sooner rather than later. Vaccination is the only solution, but designing and producing vaccines has never been harder due to stringent trials, rules and regulations and huge...
John Motram has the chance of a lifetime. A cell biologist convinced that the Black Death was not caused by bubonic plague but by an unknown virus, he is asked to examine preserved bodies buried under the ancient abbey at Dryburgh. However, Motram's ...
In an Edinburgh hospital a young doctor dies in agony, trapped in a steam-filled steriliser. Three subsequent victims inexplicably bleed to death: lab technician Susan Daniels, little Timmy Watson who was recovering from his 'life-saving' operation, ...
A break-in at the hospital morgue, the unexplained disappearance of certain bodies, intrigue among the senior staff and a chance encounter with a grieving widower prompt Dr James Saracen to question irregularities surrounding the death of a woman at ...
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 wit...
The mysterious letter invited him to an interview for a job he'd never applied for. But at 37, his family life and medical career in ruins, Dr Mark Avedissian wasn't feeling like asking too many questions.Nor, it turned out, were British Intelligence...
Dr. Frank Simmons works in the University of Edinburgh’s medical school. One of his PhD students, brilliant loner Gavin, announces his intention to find a cure for cancer and actually makes a major bre...
The 10th Dr Steven Dunbar thriller.Ex-Special Forces medic Dr Steven Dunbar is distraught when he hears of the death of his old friend, Dr Simone Ricard of Médicins sans Frontières at a scientific meeting in Prague. When he learns that Simone had g...
The ninth Dr Stephen Dunbar thriller.Ex-Special Forces medic Dr Steven Dunbar has left his job with the Sci-Med Inspectorate and now works for a pharmaceutical company. Against his will, he is persuaded to return to Sci-Med when a number of people di...