Peter Clement (1) (1948–)

St. Paul’s Hospital, Buffalo, New York. Scandal rocks the medical community when someone murders the chief administrator, plunging a long thin cardiac needle into his heart with deadly precision.

Top ER physician Earl Garnet is one of the few doctors who knows how to insert a cardiac needle. Now a suspect, Garnet races to uncover the truth, even as he becomes embroiled in a conspiracy far bigger and more sinister than he could ever imagine . . . a secret that could blow apart the very medical establishment Garnet has sworn to serve.… (meer)

Mutant by Peter Clement is an interesting proposition - a medical thriller, a virus/disease novel, a grand conspiracy, a story of contaminated food, a story of corporate negligence, a story of murder and attempted murder with a few sex scenes thrown in.

Whilst the main thrust of the plot involves corporations genetically engineering food with potentially unknown consequences it turns into an investigation of such with the idea that the consequences are not so unknown but rather covered up, and actively so. As things progress it seems that further development and dispersion is taking place for reasons that are yet to be revealed.

It's a pretty good tale, however it could have used some more length to properly cover all the aspects of the corporate negligence and plotting it attempted to bring into the plot, as would have further attention been given to the Farsi speaking security guards which seemed to be addressed rather minimally towards the end.… (meer)