Author: Stephen Gallagher
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"If thriller reading were a sin, Stephen Gallagher would be responsible for my ultimate damnation. His work is fast-paced, well-written, infused with a sense of dark wonder, and altogether fresh." (Dean R Koontz)
The novel that inspired the headline-grabbing ITV series starring John Lynch, Kenneth Cranham, and Christine Kavanagh. A terrifyingly plausible journey into the disturbing nerve-centers of medical science where our secret future is formed today.
When Peter Carson is invited to the pioneering Jenner Clinic by one of the lab assistants, he's naturally intrigued. But when he arrives at the remote site in the Cumbrian fells to find police roadblocks and official silence, he realises that he's stumbled onto a story that will do him no good at all.
Dr Jenner's work matters to the government. Enough to warrant unlimited funding, high security, and the best technicians in the country. But something has gone badly wrong. The project that has no room for mistakes has produced a result so terrible that it must never see the light of day. And now the evidence must be destroyed, whatever the cost.
"A rip-roaring chiller which is a latter-day Prometheus both Unbound and bloody." (Time Out)
"Genuinely creepy and alluring... Gallagher shows a classy, textured narrative style." (Kirkus)
Stephen Gallagher is a novelist and screenwriter, and creator of TV's Eleventh Hour. The three-part ITV adaptation of Oktober starred Stephen Tompkinson. His most recent novel is The Kingdom of Bones.
"The finest British writer of bestselling popular fiction since le Carre." (The Independent)
"Gallagher is a master of abnormal psychology and he just gets better and better." (Mystery Scene)
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