Saturday 14 January 2012

The Interpreter: Epidemic


The volunteers started to arrive late on the Tuesday afternoon, and three days later the clinical trials of a new antibiotic drug commenced in earnest. On that first day all fifty-eight volunteers were deliberately infected with a particularly virulent virus. Not that the volunteers were aware that was to happen.

Over the next forty–eight hours the symptoms started to slowly appear. Firstly the rash appeared on the upper body. Secondly there was the vomiting, and finally the breathing difficulties. Of the fifty-eight volunteers, thirty-four contracted the disease. For the next three days they all received various doses of Batch 942/D. It was on the second day that it became clear things were not going exactly to plan.

On that day two of the patients died.

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Epidemic - available on Amazon.co.uk http://www.amazon.co.uk/Epidemic-John-Holt/dp/161667170X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1326036878&sr=8-1

Tom Kendall, a down to earth private detective, is asked to investigate the death of a young newspaper reporter. The evidence shows quite clearly that it was an accident, a simple, dreadful accident. That was the finding of the coroner, and the local police department. Furthermore there were two witnesses. They saw the whole thing. But was it an accident, or was it something far more sinister? Against a backdrop of a viral epidemic slowly spreading from Central America, a simple case soon places Kendall up against the boss of one of the largest drug companies in the world.




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