Кен Макклюр – лучшие книги

Семилетняя Аманда Чепмен страдает острой почечной недостаточностью. Ее помешают в "Медик Экосс", современную частную клинику в Глазго, где у девочки появляется надежда на спасение - пересадка почки. Однако сотрудник агентства "Сай-Мед" доктор Стивен Данбар, расследующий преступления в сфере медицины, обнаруживает, что за первоклассным оборудованием и улыбчивыми лицами персонала таится страшный заговор, и Стивен Данбар начинает гонку со временем, чтобы раскрыть правду и спасти Аманду. Детектив "Донор" открывает цикл медицинских триллеров всемирно известного шотландского писателя Кена Макклюра о расследованиях доктора Стивена Данбара,…

На борту самолета, следующего рейсом из Африки в Лондон, истекая кровью, умирает пассажир: причиной считают вирус Эбола. Доктор Стивен Данбар начинает расследование и обнаруживает, что вирус ни при чем. А тем временем количество жертв неизвестного вируса стремительно растет. Политики пытаются замять эту историю, а ученые - найти причину этой эпидемии. Даже доктор Данбар в тупике, однако правда, постепенно выплывающая наружу, повергает всех в ужас и шок...

Правительствам мировых держав становится известно о том, что биологические террористы готовят теракт, предотвратить который невозможно. Единственный выход — вакцинация. Но производство подходящей вакцины требует серьезных исследований, а разработанный в спешке препарат может привести к еще большей катастрофе…

Джон Мотрэм, цитолог из университета Ньюкасла, твердо убежден, что "черная смерть" была вызвана не бубонной чумой, а неизвестным вирусом. Он приходит в восторг, когда из университета в Оксфорде ему сообщают, что в подвалах аббатства Драйбург сохранились тела жертв времен "черной смерти". Мотрэм считает это шансом доказатьсвою правоту. На раскопках, проникнув в тайную усыпальницу, Мотрэм теряет рассудок. Расследовать это дело направляют доктора Стивена Данбара, инспектора "Сай-Мед", опасаясь, что на свободу вырвется новый вирус-убийца.
Детектив "Мутация" продолжает цикл книг всемирно известного шотландского писателя Кена Макклюра о расследованиях доктора Стивена Данбара из агентства "Sci-Med Inspectorate".

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...

When John McKirrop, a down-and-out tramp, takes shelter in a deserted graveyard one night, he witnesses the disinterment of the body of a young boy. Yet no one takes much notice of his stories. After all, who would believe the ramblings of a homeless drunk?

Father Ryan Lafferty, the local parish priest, is trying to help the boy's distrught father find his son's body. Alarmed by implications of black magic, he becomes even more inquisitive when McKirrop dies under suspicious circumstances.

At the same time, a young female doctor, Sarah Lasseter, begins to query procedures at the Trauma Unit where she treated both the missing boy and McKirrop. The unit is famous for its pioneering research in brain damage and its state-of-the-art technology. So why are the head consultants behaving strangely? And why are the trauma labs shrouded in secrecy?

Steven Dunbar gets the news that an old friend, Dr Simone Ricard of Medicins Sans Frontieres, has died in an accident while attending a scientific meeting in Prague. She and her team have been working to eradicate polio in the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan and have discovered a possible reason for their failure to do so - fake teams put in by the CIA. She has gone to Prague to publicise this but the meeting organisers won't let her speak - they already know the reason and have accepted the CIA apology. They think it will only make matters worse if wider publicity is sought.

Journalist James Kincaid has a pretty jaundiced view of the medical profession. So when he finds out the truth about what's happening at Newcastle's College Hospital, he's not surprised. He's stunned. Disbelieving. Appalled . . .

The hospital is the showpiece of the National Health Service. The brilliant, computerized Northern Health Scheme has dramatically lowered costs and improved services in the area. It's seen as a personal triumph for the new health secretary. A passport perhaps to Downing Street.

So why is the new system shrouded in secrecy? What really happened to Greta Marsh after her much-publicised operation? And why on earth is a top research scientist programming the hospital's computers? Kincaid knows the answers will get him the scoop - and the scandal of the century. If he can find them. If he can live to tell the tale .

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?

Cytogerm is a wonder drug but has been shown to have lethal side effects. Its manufacturers have withdrawn it but now seem hellbent on eliminating everyone concerned with its development. Dr Sean MacLean would like to know why but, as he was head of the surgical team using it, he finds himself in the firing line. His life has become the stuff of nightmares.

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, Avedissian's new employers, prepared to give many answers about his new role in their battle against terrorism. With minimal information they despatched him to America in the company of Kathleen, the sister of an IRA man Martin O'Neill, their brief to rescue a small boy, a child with a terrible destiny.

But in the turbulent events that followed, in the transatlantic struggle for the freedom of Ireland, British Intelligence proved to be every bit as ruthless as the IRA, and Avedissian and Kathleen dispensible pawns in a game that veered rapidly out of control . . .

Dr Steven Dunbar is whiling away the hours working for a pharmaceutical company when he's asked to investigate an unusual terrorist attack by Islamic fundamentalists - the pollution of the water supply of some housing with cholera. Vaccination goes ahead; a second attack is foiled; and eight disaffected Asian youths are arrested. All seems to be resolved, but Steven has a nagging feeling about the cholera strain. Perhaps these attacks had nothing to do with Islamic fundamentalism at all?

The most frightening thing is that research scientist McClure makes it utterly believable’ - The Scotsman 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 breakthrough. Oddly, no one seems to be interested and a picture emerges of a cancer research industry caught in a desperate paradox: it can only justify its existence by not curing cancer. Disinterest soon turns to open warfare as pressure is put on Simmons and Gavin’s work is sabotaged. A truly compelling story with superb dialogue and…

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 to be confined to mental institutions. There is no option but to have the patient committed.With his career nearing ruin, MacAndrew retreats to his native Scotland to lick his wounds and it is there that he makes further discoveries about the mysterious illness and the chemical that induced it. MacAndrew thinks he may be able to save his patient, until he discovers someone is deliberately using the chemical to regress selected individuals and gain eyewitness accounts of events in the past

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 let loose. No one seems to know exactly what the monkeys were being used for and government officials arrive a little too promptly to prevent any of Prof. Devon s colleagues from finding out exactly what he was researching.

Dr Steven Dunbar works for Sci-Med Inspectorate, a secretive agency that investigates crimes with links to the world of science. He is therefore bemused when the deathbed confession of a convicted psychopath lands on his desk. But it emerges that another man is already serving a life sentence for the brutal rape and murder of 13-year old Julie Summers -- a man whose medical research once sent shockwaves through the scientific community. Dr David Little.Little is nine years into his life sentence. The evidence against him was indisputable: a perfect DNA match. When Dunbar is sent to Edinburgh to confirm the deathbed confession as a hoax,…

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 responsible for the vaccine, has been found murdered. Yet doubts about the existence of the syndrome still exist even though thousands of veteran troops are continuing to die in their own homes. The pressure on those that know the truth is growing.

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 out for twenty years? A young Iraqi student in Edinburgh kills himself for no apparent reason. Nobody links these incidents until Adam Dewar, investigating the movement of smallpox virus fragments, stumbles on the horrific possibility that the student had been under pressure from the Iraqis to reconstruct the virus. And with the continued presence of the Iraqi secret service in the city, Dewar can…

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

Dr Michael Neef, consultant in paediatric 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 patients. The biotechnology company involved believes that it has come up with a treatment for malignant tumours, and the hospital administrators, reeling after a recent bout of bad publicity, see this as an opportunity to get some good press coverage for a change.

But as the trials progress, the press - largely in the form of journalist, Eve Sayers - becomes more interested in the deaths of two young girls. Originally thought to have died from viral pneumonia, post-mortem examinations reveal 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 city's Public Health Deapartment fails to trace the source of the carcinogen, all the signs point towards a horrifying scenario, though the powers-that-be refuse to take any of the evidence seriously. Alarm bells ringing, it is up to Neef, with the aid of Eve, to set about trying to find the cause of this deadly - and seemingly infectious - disease before any more fall victim to it. And it would appear that someone is determined he won't live to find out . . .