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Old 08-10-2012, 05:26 AM   #1
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--http://www.amazon.com/THE-SCORPIONS-ADVANCE-ebook/dp/B004KAA9OS

--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.

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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.

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KEN McCLURE is an award-winning medical scientist as well as a global selling author. He was born and brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland, where he studied medical sciences and cultivated a career that has seen him become a prize-winning researcher in his field. Using this strong background to base his thrillers in the world of science and medicine, he is currently the author of twenty-three novels and his work is available across the globe in over twenty languages. He has visited and stayed in many countries in the course of his research but now lives in the county of East Lothian, just outside Edinburgh.
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Old 08-10-2012, 05:32 AM   #2
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Mmm... Sometimes I wonder about an authors strategy of giving away ebooks. I've now got 14 of his ebooks, none of which I've had to pay for. Only 9 to go. It doesn't exactly give me much of an incentive to purchase the ones I don't have, although I'm certainly not complaining!
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Old 08-10-2012, 01:15 PM   #3
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Mmm... Sometimes I wonder about an authors strategy of giving away ebooks. I've now got 14 of his ebooks, none of which I've had to pay for. Only 9 to go. It doesn't exactly give me much of an incentive to purchase the ones I don't have, although I'm certainly not complaining!
It's a reasonable thing to wonder, perhaps worth asking the author. I can imagine a few possible reasons (in no particular order):

1. He sells more paper books thanks to word of mouth from ebook readers.
2. He improves his professional reputation, perhaps making more more money in speaking and consulting. (He's a medical scientist, right?)
3. He's altruistic and writes for the joy it gives to readers. Or he's rich and doesn't need the money.
4. The books suck, and he knows no one would pay for them. (Just joking, I haven't read any of them.)
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Old 08-10-2012, 04:00 PM   #4
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Most of his books are good.
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Old 08-10-2012, 07:02 PM   #5
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You could always buy his latest to say thank you....


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You could always buy his latest to say thank you....

http://www.amazon.com/Crows-Feat-ebook/dp/B008UCR1ZC/
Thanks, but I think you have the wrong Ken there.
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Old 08-10-2012, 08:55 PM   #7
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gah. wrong link....

was looking at that for something else.

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Old 08-10-2012, 09:52 PM   #8
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this is his latest - http://www.amazon.com/Lost-Causes-ebook/dp/B0087GZ6PS/
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Steven is assured that it was only 'flu virus but why has the army been called in to hunt down and kill the freed animals – wearing full biohazard gear?

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Just days later Tom is co-opted to investigate the disappearance of the body of a three-month-old cot-death victim from Caernarfon General's Pathology Department. But the hospital is anxious to keep publicity firmly on their upcoming symposium on in vitro fertilisation, headed by world-renowned specialist Professor Carwyn Thomas, so Tom's investigations seem thwarted at every turn. That is, until he makes the chilling discovery that Professor Thomas has more than a passing interest in the murder of little Anne-Marie Palmer . . . and seems prepared to go to any lengths to stop Tom finding out why.

Suddenly a disturbing link between the murder of the Palmer baby, the missing body of a child and the IVF clinic at Caernarfon General begins to emerge. And with John Palmer about to be tried for murder Tom is sure he didn't commit, things are starting to look desperate - and dangerous - for all of them.

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It's a reasonable thing to wonder, perhaps worth asking the author. I can imagine a few possible reasons (in no particular order):

1. He sells more paper books thanks to word of mouth from ebook readers.
2. He improves his professional reputation, perhaps making more more money in speaking and consulting. (He's a medical scientist, right?)
3. He's altruistic and writes for the joy it gives to readers. Or he's rich and doesn't need the money.
4. The books suck, and he knows no one would pay for them. (Just joking, I haven't read any of them.)
I am not the author, but I can say that the limited duration free offers on kindle are simply recognizing the new ways peeps read and to make all the catalogue available to read if "your good bookshop doesn't have them". Some, like Donor & Requiem sold many many copies in print

... and there is the reason
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A young Iraqi student at the Institute of Molecular Science in Edinburgh, Scotland kills himself for no apparent reason. Nobody links these incidents until Adam Dewar, investigating the movement of smallpox virus fragments between UK research institutes, stumbles on the horrific possibility that the student had been under pressure from the Iraqis to reconstruct the virus. And with the continued presence of the Iraqi secret service in the city, Dewar can only conclude that they are waiting for someone else to finish the job.

And then smallpox breaks out on the Muirhouse Estate, one of the poorest and most densely populated areas in Edinburgh. The priority is to contain the virus, but with the death toll rising, riots breaking out on the estate and the iraqis still waiting, Dewar is in a race against time to discover the source of the disease and prevent it falling into the hands of a hostile nation. A nation that would only be too willing to hold the world to ransom.
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