UNKNOWN

Six patients dead. The antibiotics that should have saved them…never given. The doctor exposing the scandal…murdered.

November 1995. The body of respected consultant Dr Jimmy Greenhalgh is found on a Norfolk beach handcuffed to a rusting shipwreck and drowned by the rising tide.

Eight months earlier, a meningitis outbreak hit his hospital ward, killing six young patients in quick succession.

Bad luck?
A tragic coincidence?
That’s the official story…

But Jimmy didn’t believe it.

The more he looked into the deaths, the more disturbing the pattern became. What if the patients hadn’t simply failed to respond to treatment? What if they had never received antibiotics at all?

Now Jimmy is dead and whatever he discovered about the outbreak has gone with him to the bottom of the North Sea.

Or has it?

As the truth begins to surface, a terrifying possibility emerges: someone inside the hospital had a deadly secret… and was prepared to do the unthinkable to keep it buried.

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Unthinkable is a twist-filled medical thriller perfect for fans of Robin Cook and readers gripped by the dark side of real-life hospital scandals surrounding figures such as Lucy Letby. Those who enjoy the high-stakes science thrillers of Michael Crichton, the medical suspense of Tess Gerritsen, and the hospital conspiracies of Michael Palmer will find Unthinkable impossible to put down.

Rory McGouran is a retired consultant physician with over forty years' experience of working in district hospitals such as St Paul's.