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Question of the Day! | by kickstart | 2001-06-11 00:01:00 |
| Fiction - Medical/Political Suspense and Intrigue |
by ChicoScience |
2001-06-11 08:06:21 |
Somewhere a cross between a Stephen Coonts (international intrigue and suspense) book and Robin Cook (medical mystery).
What would it be about? A Columbian drug cartel wages a war of terror on the US using discrete biological agents developed by scientists in the Columbian labs. First, subtle assassination plots to kill off the House Appropriations committee using genetically engineered bacteria in the food at a meeting. Then the maniacal surprise... What is that maniacal surprise? Well heck, I can't tell you that. Wait for the book.
Ultimately, the main character is an MD/PhD student going into infectious disease doing a clerkship at Georgetown Hospital and ends up tending one of the sick politicians before he dies. Interested in the bug, the student cultures and studies it and realizes this wasn't just some random nasty food poisoning outbreak, but that the bug was deliberately engineered, thus tipping off the plot and a winding and riveting tale of suspense and intrigue. Will the student figure it out? Will he be killed by columbian goons? Will the columbians succeed in toppling key portions of the US government?
Who knows? Heck, even I don't...
Ciao, C.Sc.
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