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Paperback - Pocket Books (2002)

Deception
In a village outside Edinburgh, there is doubt that a genetically modified crop being grown is actually the one licensed by the government. Steven Dunbar, a medical investigator with Sci-Med is sent to investigate, but finds that the farmer who made the complaints, Thomas Rafferty, is a well known drunk. Rafferty has also applied for accreditation as an organic farmer, with the backing of two venture capitalists - who turn out to be ex-SAS, and possibly still working for the government in some capacity.
As Steven investigates further his own life comes under threat, as does the survival of the village, and he must band together with his few allies to solve the mystery of the original complaint and the ever larger picture which slowly becomes clearer...

Paperback - Pocket Books (2001)

First British Edition Simon & Schuster (2000)

Tangled Web
Medical thriller writer Ken McClure evokes a sinister world where no life is sacred – least of all a baby’s.
Used to the sleepy tranquillity of village life in rural Wales, the residents of Felinbach are shocked by the brutal killing of a local baby, Anne-Marie Palmer. None more so than GP Tom Gordon, the only friend left to John Palmer who, faced with irrevocable evidence, stands accused of his daughter's murder.
Just days later Tom is co-opted to investigate the disappearance of the body of a three-month-old cot-death victim from Caernarfon General's Pathology Department. But the hospital is anxious to keep publicity firmly on their upcoming symposium on in vitro fertilisation, headed by world-renowned specialist Professor Carwyn Thomas, so Tom's investigations seem thwarted at every turn. That is, until he makes the chilling discovery that Professor Thomas has more than just a passing interest in the murder of little Anne-Marie Palmer... and seems prepared to go to any lengths to stop Tom finding out why.
Suddenly a disturbing link between the murder of the Palmer baby, the missing body of a child and the IVF clinic at Caernarfon General begins to emerge. And with John Palmer about to be tried for a murder Tom is sure he didn't commit, things are starting to look desperate - and dangerous - for all of them.
Praise for Ken McClure
‘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’s McClure’s creative interpretation of the material that makes his books interesting' Guardian
‘McClure’s forte is to take an outside-chance medical possibility, decide on the worst possible outcome … and write a book' The Scotsman
'This is a very scary book. It is intensely factual and that is why the fiction he writes is so horrifying" Manchester Evening News
'Gripping... the science comes across as being completely authentic. A thoroughly believable and entertaining yarn’ Edinburgh Evening News

First British Edition Simon & Schuster (1999)

Paperback - Pocket Books (2000)

Resurrection
The greatest killer the world has ever known is back from the dead…
A half-dead man is picked up by a British patrol at the Iraqi border and found to have suffered a rare reaction to the smallpox vaccine. But why are the Iraqis vaccinating their soldiers against a disease that was wiped out twenty years ago?
A young Iraqi student at the Institute of Molecular Science in Edinburgh kills himself for no apparent reason. Nobody links these incidents until Adam Dewar, investigating the movement of smallpox virus fragments between UK research institutes, stumbles on the horrific possibility that the student had been under pressure from the Iraqis to reconstruct the virus.
And then smallpox breaks out on the Muirhouse Estate, one of the most densely populated areas in Edinburgh. The priority is to contain the disease, but with the death toll rising, riots breaking out on the estate and the Iraqis waiting, Dewar is in a race against time to discover the source of the disease and prevent it falling into the wrong hands.
'Real page-turning stuff… thoroughly believable and entertaining' Edinburgh Evening News

Paperback - Pocket Books (1999)

Donor
Seven-year-old Amanda Chapman is desperately ill with acute renal failure and the doctors are pessimistic about her chances of surviving until a compatible kidney donor can be found. But then Amanda is accepted for treatment as a rare NHS patient at Glasgow's exclusive private hospital, Medic Ecosse. Run by one of the country's leading transplant surgeons, and with a pioneering dialysis unit, it looks as if Amanda could well have been given the chance she needs. But behind the lavish hospital corridors, private rooms and friendly staff lurks something much more sinister...
Dr Stephen Dunbar, sent undercover by the Home Office to investigate complaints made by two ex-members of staff at Medic Ecosse, soon begins to lift the lid on a horrifying conspiracy. One that puts Amanda's already precarious young life in terrible danger. But can he get to the truth before a donor organ is found and the supposedly life-saving operation takes place?

Paperback - Pocket Books (1998)

Pandora's Helix
Dr Michael Neef, consultant in paediatric oncology, 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 it seems a new treatment for malignant tumours may have been discovered.
But as the trials progress, the excitement is overshadowed by the puzzling deaths of two young girls. Originally thought to have died from viral pneumonia, post-mortem examination reveals the presence of an underlying cancer, so severe that only recent exposure to a powerful carcinogen can account for it. As more deaths follow and the source of the carcinogen remains a mystery, Neef must find the cause of this deadly and infectious disease, before any more fall victim to it ...