In a village outside Edinburgh, a young boy is the victim of a shocking ordeal while playing by the canal… he is attacked by a rat. The village itself is currently in turmoil over a genetically modified crop growing in a nearby field and sinister...
Dr Steven Dunbar works for Sci-Med Inspectorate, a secretive agency that investigates crimes with links to the world of science. He is therefore bemused when the deathbed confession of a convicted psychopath lands on his desk. But it emerges that...
Dr Steven Dunbar is whiling away the hours working for a pharmaceutical company when he's asked to investigate an unusual terrorist attack by Islamic fundamentalists - the pollution of the water supply of some housing with cholera. Vaccination goes...
Once upon a time, people believed that diseases such as Cholera and the Black Death were caused by the inhalation of noxious vapours, particularly those arising from decomposing organic matter — the miasma. We now know that bacteria and viruses...
Dr Steven Dunbar, ex Special Forces medic and chief investigator with the Sci-Med Inspectorate, comes across apparent interference with front-line medical research in the UK. Funding for Professor Dorothy Lindstrom, a leading neuroscientist who has...
When a vaccine designed by British scientists becomes contaminated in a freak accident, military leaders decide that it must remain a secret. Twelve years later veterans are dying from a ‘Gulf War Syndrome’.
Dr George Sebring, the...
When the Crick Research Institute is broken into the police believe that it was Animal Rights activists taking things a step too far. But one of the Institute's top scientists, Tim Devon, is found brutally murdered and six research monkeys have...
Steven Dunbar gets the news that an old friend, Dr Simone Ricard of Medicins Sans Frontieres, has died in an accident while attending a scientific meeting in Prague. She and her team have been working to eradicate polio in the border region...