Ken McClure "Blight"

Author: Ken McClure Title: The Plague Genre: Medical thriller Description: Ken McClure is a microbiologist and physician by profession, a faculty member at the University of Edinburgh, a recipient of awards in the field of microbiology, and the author of numerous publications and scientific articles. Not only that—he is the author of many brilliant medical thrillers, and I can confidently call him the British Cook. In *The Plague*, he shows how the modern world copes with the plague, a contagious disease that—apart from endemic cases in certain regions of Africa and Asia—has not appeared for centuries. McClure places at the center of the story a young, ambitious emergency room doctor who is fully dedicated to medicine and helping people. It is only thanks to his persistence and courage that the secret hidden by the authorities—who were trying to cover up the first cases—is uncovered...