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Deception [Paperback]

Ken McClure (Author)
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July 1, 2002
When GM crops are this year's scapegoat, what horrors hide behind them? Ken McClure has written another classic novel of science and medicine. DECEPTION will raise him to the very peak of the genre. The rats raised the alarm...In a village outside Edinburgh, there is doubt that a genetically modified crop which is being grown is actually the one licensed by the government. Steven Dunbar, and medical investigator with the Sci-Med Inspectorate, 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 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...

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About the Author

Ken McClure is an award-winning research scientist with the Medical Research Council of Great Britain. His medical thrillers have been translated into twenty-one languages and all are international bestsellers. He lives and works in Edinburgh.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books (July 1, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743415744
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743415743
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,960,928 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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KEN McCLURE is an award-winning medical scientist as well as a global selling author. He was born and brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he studied medical sciences and cultivated a career that has seen him become a prize-winning researcher in his field. Using this strong background to base his thrillers in the world of science and medicine, he is currently the author of twenty-three novels and his work is available across the globe in over twenty languages. He has visited and stayed in many countries in the course of his research but now lives in the county of East Lothian, just outside Edinburgh where he is happiest playing with his two young grandsons, Sam and Joel.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Workmanlike medical-conspiracy thriller, June 4, 2005
This review is from: Deception (Hardcover)
McClure has been deubbe " the Scottish Michael Crichton" but I am not wholly persuaded the comparison is apt--McClure is not as heavy on the technological research and operates on a smaller scale .His books about Doctor Steven Dunbar -of which this is one -are entertaining ventures into the world of the medical thriller and succed in being lively diversions with an underlying sense of warning -allhis scenarios are frighteningly plausible .
Dunbar-ex British Army Special Services--is an investigator for Sci-Med , a branch of the government investigating issues linked to medical matters -malpractice ,say ,or disease

Deception takes place around the unprepossessing ,fictional village of Blackbridge ,near Edinburgh where violence has broken out between a Genetically Modified Food farm and a proposed new organic farm venture .There are sudden and inexplicable instances of rats attacking and killing people-including the local vicar ,and a small child .The new organic farm venture has some distinctly heavyweight security and seem secretive about what exactly is going on in the area .When Dunbar seems to be getting too close to the truth his own child is kidnapped and a warning issued that he had best drop the case if he wants to see the child again .
The tabloid press takes a hand ,whipping up public opinion against the GM farm and riot ensues .Naturally there is government cover-up involved .
Dunbar is a well drawn and sympathetic figure and McClure ,a micro-biologist by training ,is good at extrapolating scenarios based on worst case medical realities

Good ,solid reading and plausible .
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