Malpractice

by Mike Adlam

Product DescriptionSharply satirical and disturbingly dark, Malpractice takes a scalpel to the vanities of the medical profession and, in doing so lays bare the deceits and cruelties to which desperate people will stoop.“Savagely Funny…Enormously entertaining…” (THE POST)The first book in the philandering surgeon Tony Stamford series.Imagine if John le Carré, Michel Crichton, George MacDonald Fraser and Philip K Dick all got together to write a gripping medical thriller that challenged and entertained in equal this could be that book.The latest novel from Mike Adlam is a fast paced contemporary medical thriller, wonderfully enjoyable, both funny and serious, light and dark, morally engaged and ironically detached. The high ideals of the mind are constantly sabotaged by the low instincts of the Wealthy, philandering surgeon Tony Stamford seems to have the world at his feet until an embarrassing email from a recent conquest, Katya, proves the final straw for his long-suffering wife. But is she as long-suffering as she seems, and who really is Katya? As Stamford's life begins to unravel he finds himself lost in a world of mirrors, no longer certain who he can trust and doubting the value of his very existence. Stripped of everything he once owned, he embarks on a battle for his freedom and even sanity which can only end in death. By turns, sharply satirical and disturbingly dark, Malpractice takes a scalpel to the vanities of the medical profession and, in doing so lays bare the deceits and cruelties that desperate people will stoop to. A gripping thriller that reaches remorselessly into the depths of human nature.Readers should be warned that the novel contains strong language and scenes of sex and violence.Author's If you are a fan of Mike Adlam's work, please look out for the release of his latest novel "Sharp Practice”! Ten percent of profits from all sales of Malpractice will be donated to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital liver unit.

494 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 10, 2012

About the author

Mike Adlam is the author of dark comedies: Malpractice, Sharp Practice and the soon to be published Out of Practice. In 2007, things were looking grim for Mike, after being told by doctors that they did not expect him to survive a week, following his collapse with cancer of the liver. However, he refused to be beaten and it is a moot point how much the sharply observed satire running through the books owes to his own experiences. The Trilogy follows the adventures of arrogant, philandering surgeon Tony Stamford through the machinations of life in a top London Hospital in the first book, out into the brutal corruption of front-line surgery in the Middle East in the second and back to the black arts of British medical politics in the third. Throughout we are gripped by the pace of the narrative and the caustic wit. He has also published The Rent Man, a cunningly constructed action thriller, riven with deliciously black humour and the bleak, forbidding atmosphere of decaying urban Wales.

Reviews

[Tim Prosser · Rating 5 out of 5]

I sat staring at the monitor in horror. I was in work early to check my emails before my traitorous snake of a secretary, Colleen had a chance to incriminate me further. My conscience had woken me ahead of my phone alarm, despite my having spent the rest of the previous evening working myself into a stew of self-righteous bullshit. I finally went to bed late and slightly drunk, convinced that I was the injured party.

I had adopted this early arrival ploy since that first disastrous billet d’amour and so far I had intercepted two more declarations of Katya’s undying love and deleted them both unopened in the hope that she would take the hint. This latest communication, however, shifted the goalposts completely.

The cause of my alarm was posted on the screen in front of me. It read:

My Dearest Tony,

You are perhaps not wishing to answer my emails, but situation is most serious as well as wonderful! My doctor is telling me that I am expecting a baby from you. It is most urgent you must talk to me because there is very much we must be thinking of.

All my love,

Katya

And so begins an absolute scorching roller coaster of read! I couldn't put it down, gripping, funny, shocking and remorseless in equal measure. If you haven't read it yet, you need to!