White Death

Dr Steven Dunbar #7

by Ken McClure

White Death is the seventh thriller by Ken McClure to feature the ex-special forces medic Steven Dunbar.

The governments of the western world know a terrorist biological attack will happen sooner rather than later. Vaccination is a crucial response, but designing and producing vaccines has never been harder due to stringent trials, rules and regulations, as well as huge settlements in an increasingly litigious society.

There is no such thing as a 'completely safe vaccine' but necessity soon begins to outweigh caution and corners are cut, blind eyes turned and scientists given free rein with scandalously dangerous experiments in molecular biology. The only outcome can be disaster.

Genres: Thriller, Medical, Ebooks, Crime, British Literature, Fiction

240 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2009

About the author

Ken McClure is the internationally bestselling author of over twenty medical thrillers such as The Lazarus Strain, The Gulf Conspiracy, White Death and Dust to Dust. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages and he has earned a reputation for the accuracy of his predicitions. McClure's work is informed by his background as an award-winning research scientist with the UK's Medical Research Council. He lives in a small village in the Lammermuir Hills of Scotland.

Reviews

[anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5/5
good stuff, ale wątek romantyczny zupełnie niepotrzebny

[Shar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great Steven Dunbar title from Ken McClure, fast paced and keeps you hooked right to the end.

highly recommended

[Brian Deegan · Rating 4 out of 5]

203

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Worryingly believable!

As with all the other Ken McClure books in the Stephen Dunbar series, I found this one to be very worryingly believable and even more so because Ken himself normally supplies links to documents that give his sources for the information contained in his novels. That is not to say that his stories are based on fact but they are certainly very good at showing us what could feasibly happen at some point in the future and since this book was written quite some time ago I would imagine that we are even closer to such situations now than we were then.

Ken is a brilliant story teller and in Dr Stephen Dunbar he has created a hero who is prepared to put himself at risk in order to get to the truth in a Sci-Med investigation. Unfortunately, this also means that he tends to put others around him at risk which means that very often he finds relationships extremely difficult. This story is no different and we are left at the end wondering whether he has finally managed to overcome this problem or whether the start of the next in the series will find him alone once more.

I always enjoy reading these novels as I find them fascinating and exciting, and having read this one in 2 days I conclude that they are very hard to put down.

[denudatio_pulpae · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nie jest to na pewno thriller medyczny na poziomie Robina Cooka, ale czyta się szybko i całkiem przyjemnie.
Pozytywnie zaskoczyła mnie informacja, że artykuły medyczne wykorzystane w książce są autentyczne - jak dla mnie to duży plus.
Intryga może nie oszałamiająca, ale całkiem zgrabnie pomyślana i bez większych nieścisłości.
Troszeczkę mi brakowało zwrotów akcji i moim zdaniem było jednak za mało medycyny :)
6/10

[Donaam · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you don’t have anything to read, you can read this book. The characters are not very intriguing, I’d say that they’re without any special personalities. I didn’t expect such ending. The end of the book is a pile of s.ck , by writing this I meant I expected sth ,big’ or ,wow’.

[Emma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another absorbing read from Ken McClure. Probably shouldn't have started reading this just after being vaccinated......

[Helen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gripping and tense - frighteningly believable! Very simply written with no unnecessary flowery adjectives used when they’re not needed. An easy and enjoyable read.

[Jack · Rating 4 out of 5]

Clever, easy read biomedical thriller that could make one nervous about vaccines. Stephen Dunbar is asked to look at an apparent suicide and uncovers a complicated mystery.

[Angus MacDonald · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very believable and a warning

[Jacob Peled · Rating 5 out of 5]

A top-notch thriller. Every time it seems to us (as well as the hero of the story) that we have reached a dead end, a new detail is revealed. And so the book is full of twists and turns, and unexpected events.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gripping, well constructed medical thriller / whodunnit. I've read three of his books now, all very good.

[Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant! and thoroughly interesting topic.