The Scorpion's Advance

Klein's death was as brutally horrifying as it was unexpected.Bacteriologist, Dr Neil Anderson is asked by the hospital authorities to try and discover what disease could possibly have transformed a healthy medical student into a grotesque corpse within hours. His invesitigation uncovers an unlikely link between Klein's routine participation in testing a new drug and the research laboratories of Dr Jacob Strauss, one of the foremost medical scientists of his day.Was Klein's death purely a medical mishap? Or was it, as Anderson begins to suspect, the result of something much more secret - and infinitely more sinister?This book was first published by Collins/Fontana in the UK in 1986 and reissued by Pocket Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Ltd, in 1998.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-three 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.

Author: Ken McClure

Publisher: Independently published

Publication Date: Feb 20, 2017

Number of Pages: 208 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback/Fiction

ISBN-10: 1520655606

ISBN-13: 9781520655604