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Screen Fail
Some patients are supposed to fail screening. Someone is making sure they don't.
At Chistik Clinical Trials, Dr. Molly Wayne is the kind of oncologist patients trust with their lives. Brilliant, compassionate, and fiercely devoted to her patients, she has built a reputation few would dare question.
Then patients in an experimental cancer trial begin dying.
Daniel Lawson notices first. The numbers don't feel right. Patients who should never have qualified for the trial are somehow getting through screening, and routine medical decisions begin to look very different when examined together.
When Daniel starts asking questions, he discovers something even more other people have noticed too.
They just learned to stay quiet.
As suspicion spreads through the clinic, a trail of altered eligibility, buried warnings, money, and long-kept secrets begins pointing toward someone nobody wants to suspect.
And the closer Daniel gets to the truth, the more dangerous the truth becomes.
SCREEN FAIL is a medical thriller about ambition, loyalty, clinical research, and the terrifying consequences of a system that works perfectly until the wrong person learns how to manipulate it.
In medicine, a screen fail can save a life. This time, it might expose a killer.
At Chistik Clinical Trials, Dr. Molly Wayne is the kind of oncologist patients trust with their lives. Brilliant, compassionate, and fiercely devoted to her patients, she has built a reputation few would dare question.
Then patients in an experimental cancer trial begin dying.
Daniel Lawson notices first. The numbers don't feel right. Patients who should never have qualified for the trial are somehow getting through screening, and routine medical decisions begin to look very different when examined together.
When Daniel starts asking questions, he discovers something even more other people have noticed too.
They just learned to stay quiet.
As suspicion spreads through the clinic, a trail of altered eligibility, buried warnings, money, and long-kept secrets begins pointing toward someone nobody wants to suspect.
And the closer Daniel gets to the truth, the more dangerous the truth becomes.
SCREEN FAIL is a medical thriller about ambition, loyalty, clinical research, and the terrifying consequences of a system that works perfectly until the wrong person learns how to manipulate it.
In medicine, a screen fail can save a life. This time, it might expose a killer.
222 pages, Hardcover
Published September 17, 2026
About the author
Stephen Peters
38 books1 followerStephen Peters is a screenwriter and author best known for writing the screenplay for Wild Things (1998). He also wrote The Fourth War (1990) and the novel The Park is Mine (1981), which was later adapted for film.
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