The Medical Murders Series (1 & 4) by Andrew Puckett
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Overview: Andrew Puckett is a writer who feels he should experience for himself the trials imposed on his protagonists.
Examples are: Being locked in a freezer room at -40 degrees, Climbing a 1000 foot cliff from a rocky beach in the dark, Then encountering the Exmoor Beast (involuntary), Escaping from a prison ship (not actually incarcerated!), Falling into the sea from Durdle Dor (not quite), Escaping from a burning caravan etc.
Before that, he grew up on his parents’ farms, the first in a remote part of Dorset, the second in the shadow of Salisbury cathedral.
He worked in a brewery, a chemical factory and Porton Germ Warfare Establishment, where he acquired a painful immunity to Plague, Anthrax and Smallpox (which did at least give him the idea for his novel Going Viral). He then worked in hospital labs in Taunton, London and finally Oxford, where he ran the microbiology department at Oxford Blood Transfusion Centre for fifteen years.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
#1 – Desolation Point
A whiteness glimmering just beneath the surface of the cloudy water, rolling in the current … then a face emerged, eyes peering sightlessly.
All is not well with the Somerset Nuclear Electric power station at Desolation Point.
It is being picketed by a women’s pressure group, who claim that exposure to radiation caused one of its employees to lose his infant son to leukaemia.
Then Michael Hempstead, a senior engineer at the station, becomes involved with Sarah Brierly, one of the group’s organisers, and the problems begin to escalate.
A colleague of Michael’s is found dead. Then there is a radiation leak. Accident or sabotage?
Something very sinister is going on at Desolation Point, and the stakes are sky high.
#4 – Shadows Behind A Screen
Computers play a huge part in all our lives now, but too huge? We are used to accepting what the computer says as Absolute Truth – but what if someone with malice aforethought has tampered with it?
Harry Benedict’s son has an ear infection and is admitted to hospital, and Harry, a hospital scientist himself, is convinced that someone has altered the antibiotic results, meaning that the boy is given the wrong one. He reacts violently.
Tom Jones, Health Service Investigator and computer expert is called in. Harry, he quickly learns, although clever, is amoral and possesses plenty of enemies. He has stolen a colleague’s fiancé, who was then killed in a car accident – which was almost certainly Harry’s fault. Before this, he had a girlfriend – but the relationship didn’t end well. Harry has consistently undermined his superior, who has become desperate.
But which of his enemies could hate him enough to try and revenge themselves through his son?
Together with the attractive Inspector Liz Kendall of the local police, Tom investigates.
But when Tom questions Harry rigorously about his enemies’ motives, Harry attacks him. Tom is prepared to make allowances, but this is too much – and Tom can be violent too.
Tom’s enquiries pose a question – just how secure are the computers that control so much of our lives?
#4 – Shadows Behind A Screen
Computers play a huge part in all our lives now, but too huge? We are used to accepting what the computer says as Absolute Truth – but what if someone with malice aforethought has tampered with it?
Harry Benedict’s son has an ear infection and is admitted to hospital, and Harry, a hospital scientist himself, is convinced that someone has altered the antibiotic results, meaning that the boy is given the wrong one. He reacts violently.
Tom Jones, Health Service Investigator and computer expert is called in. Harry, he quickly learns, although clever, is amoral and possesses plenty of enemies. He has stolen a colleague’s fiancé, who was then killed in a car accident – which was almost certainly Harry’s fault. Before this, he had a girlfriend – but the relationship didn’t end well. Harry has consistently undermined his superior, who has become desperate.
But which of his enemies could hate him enough to try and revenge themselves through his son?
Together with the attractive Inspector Liz Kendall of the local police, Tom investigates.
But when Tom questions Harry rigorously about his enemies’ motives, Harry attacks him. Tom is prepared to make allowances, but this is too much – and Tom can be violent too.
Tom’s enquiries pose a question – just how secure are the computers that control so much of our lives?
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