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Wildcard [Paperback]

Ken McClure (Author)
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May 6, 2003
Steven Dunbar's latest and most deadly case...When a killer virus appears, there are no obvious connections between the victims. The truth that finally emerges is shocking, terrifying, yet all-too-possible When a traveller dies on a flight back to London from Africa, bleeding profusely, the Ebola virus is blamed. Steven Dunbar of the Sci-Med Directorate investigates and discovers that this outbreak cannot be blamed on Ebola, and that others, completely unrelated to the first victim, are falling ill and dying. Somewhere there is a link. Somehow the wild cards are related. As more and more people fall ill and die throughout the British Isles in the run-up to Christmas, politicians equivocate and scientists attempt to find a seemingly impossible answer. Steven questions his own belief in medicine and in his role as a doctor. Gradually, the truth becomes clearer...it is terrifying and unbelievable.

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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: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Pocket Books (May 6, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743440137
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743440134
  • Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,271,023 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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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Well-wrought and unnerving, July 30, 2004
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This review is from: Wildcard (Hardcover)
Humphrey James Barclay is onboard a flight from Ndanga to London when he starts bleeding uncontrollably, passing out almost immediately. Among the passengers is Dr Palmer who diagnoses haemorrhagic fever, one of its from being known as Ebola, an extremely contagious disease. Although every precaution is taken after the plane has landed in Heathrow, several passengers, Dr Palmer and a stewardess die a few days later of the same symptoms as Barclay because they had come close to the sick man without any protection. Dr Steven Dunbar, a Sci-Med investigator, is commissioned to investigate the case and when a post-mortem is performed on Barclay's body, a filovirus is discovered as being the cause for his haemorrhagic fever. However, this is surprising because scientists agree on the fact that there is no haemorrhagic fever in Ndanga. Even more surprising is the fact that a young woman, Ann Danby, is found dead in her flat in Manchester, also having succumbed to haemorrhagic fever. As more and more cases are reported with completely unrelated patients throughout the British Isles, a race against time starts for Dr Dunbar and his colleagues to find and eradicate the mysterious disease.
An entertaining medical thriller in the same vein as Michael Palmer or Robin Cook.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good until ......., November 12, 2008
This review is from: Wildcard (Paperback)
I was liking this book just fine until the part came that I always hate - the bad ending. The question of what caused this hemorrhagic ailment is interesting; Dunbar's detective work was meticulous and painstaking as he tries to piece together the mystery of how all these seemingly unrelated cases of filovirus are connected. Some of the events that happen and don't happen in the book are a bit unbelievable -- for sure how Dunbar doesn't end up with the virus himself the biggest stretch considering all that happens and some of the things he does. All in all, a nice effort but I feel that authors really need to consider the impact of how they end a book. I would be more specific but that would be spoilers.
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