Trauma A new terror to destroy
When John McKirrop, a down-and-out tramp, witnesses the disinterment of a young child's body, no one takes much notice. Until he himself dies under suspicious circumstances ...
Dr Sarah Lasseter, who treated both the missing boy and McKirrop, begins to query procedures at the Trauma Unit where she works. Famous for its pioneering research in brain damage, why is the Unit shrouded in secrecy and top-level security?
To Sarah's horror, it soon becomes clear that beneath the cover of the noble advancement of medicine, there lies a sinister, if brilliant, discovery. A discovery for which someone is prepared to kill ...
Chameleon Women are dying in Kerr Memorial Hospital. They are dying, at an alarming rate, from post operative wound infections which are resistant to antibiotics, and the authorities cannot find the source. As the situation threatens to get out of control, the hospital staff are under mounting pressure and nerves are stretched to breaking point. At the same time, a psychopathic killer is running amok, committing brutal murders in the town.
The Home Office send an outsider, surgeon Scott Jamieson, to investigate. Jamieson soon finds himself in a maelstrom of accusation and counter accusation. Is this outbreak the result of deliberate contamination, or just a freak strain of bacteria?
Jamieson begins to suspect that the truth might be far more horrific than anyone could have imagined in their worst nightmares.
Paperback - Pocket Books (1994)
Crisis An isolated incident - or a national disaster
When three young farmworkers die suddenly of a brain disease, the Medical Research Council feels compelled to investigate. Dr Ian Bannerman, consultant pathologist and expert on brain disease, is sent to make discreet enquiries. But in north-east Scotland, Bannerman finds plenty of cause for alarm - and terror.
He discovers a brainless corpse in an Edinburgh morgue; a dead man at the Foot of a Hebridean cliff; suspicious local farmers; threats from the nearby nuclear power station - and more horrifying evidence of the disease. But what is the cause? A deadly virus that has crossed the species barrier - or a murderous conspiracy of men?
Either way, human life is increasingly under threat. Especially Bannerman's…
Requiem A woman with severe facial deformity is admitted to College Hospital for radical new surgery, attracting wide press coverage. Despite the hospital's assurances that the operation was successful, journalist James Kincaid is sceptical, even when the recovered woman is presented in public. Meanwhile, the new health minister, John Carlisle, announces his policy to transform the health service. The success of the new scheme and its apparent cost effectiveness is seen as a personal triumph for Carlisle. Why, then, are patients with terminal illnesses or disabilities dying much sooner than expected? With the help of Dr. Neil Tolkein and Staff Nurse Eve Laing, Kincaid risks all to uncover a horrifying and sinister conspiracy.
Pestilence 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 Skelmore Hospital. Narrowly avoiding personal disaster, he unearths a conspiracy to conceal the fact that she died of a disease believed to have faded out in England hundreds of years ago. The lazy and politically motivated head consultant carelessly assumes that this is an isolated incident. Saracen is sceptical and is proved right when more and more cases are brought into the Accident and Emergency unit. Faced with the outbreak of a highly contagious epidemic, which seems to defy the rules of containment, the town is placed under martial law. Saracen struggles relentlessly against the clock to trace the elusive source of the pestilence and save the Midlands town from annihilation.
Trauma
Trauma