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Duty of Care
DUTY OF CARE A Medical Thriller
When saving lives becomes a deadly game of judgment.
Paramedic Alex Bennett thought he'd seen every way a person could die on Glasgow's unforgiving streets. Then a homeless teenager dies in a shop doorway with symptoms that don't match any overdose Alex has ever witnessed. The smell is wrong. The presentation is wrong. And he's the only one asking questions.
As similar deaths spread across the city—each victim dismissed as another casualty of addiction or desperation—Alex stumbles into a world where shadowy government agencies track patterns that others refuse to see. But someone else is watching too. Someone who believes the healthcare system is broken beyond repair. Someone making calculated decisions about who deserves to live.
Recruited by the mysterious Division Nine, Alex must navigate between his duty as a paramedic and his role as an undercover operative. But when the killer's philosophy hits terrifyingly close to conversations Alex hears every day—about deserving patients, limited resources, and the burden of society's forgotten—he begins to question everything he thought he knew about care, judgment, and the thin line between healing and harm.
When saving lives becomes a deadly game of judgment.
Paramedic Alex Bennett thought he'd seen every way a person could die on Glasgow's unforgiving streets. Then a homeless teenager dies in a shop doorway with symptoms that don't match any overdose Alex has ever witnessed. The smell is wrong. The presentation is wrong. And he's the only one asking questions.
As similar deaths spread across the city—each victim dismissed as another casualty of addiction or desperation—Alex stumbles into a world where shadowy government agencies track patterns that others refuse to see. But someone else is watching too. Someone who believes the healthcare system is broken beyond repair. Someone making calculated decisions about who deserves to live.
Recruited by the mysterious Division Nine, Alex must navigate between his duty as a paramedic and his role as an undercover operative. But when the killer's philosophy hits terrifyingly close to conversations Alex hears every day—about deserving patients, limited resources, and the burden of society's forgotten—he begins to question everything he thought he knew about care, judgment, and the thin line between healing and harm.
180 pages, Hardcover
Published January 30, 2026
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Andrew Williams
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September 22, 2025
This is a cracking read from a new author. It is a medical thriller which moves along at a furious pace.
The plot is both plausible and thought provoking in equal measure. There is a mixed bag of believable characters with the main protagonist Alex Bennett hinting throughout at a troubled past. By the end of the book I was left wondering where I stood in this debate and desperately wanting to to learn more about Alex and what he decides to do now.
The plot is both plausible and thought provoking in equal measure. There is a mixed bag of believable characters with the main protagonist Alex Bennett hinting throughout at a troubled past. By the end of the book I was left wondering where I stood in this debate and desperately wanting to to learn more about Alex and what he decides to do now.
October 5, 2025
I really enjoyed this book. It combines sharp storytelling, compassion and deep insight to explore what duty and responsibility really mean. Williams’ writing managed to capture the human and professional dimensions of providing health care while taking us on a thrilling adventure through Glasgow.
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