Isolation Ward

By Joshua Spanogle,

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Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before it is…

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1 author picked Isolation Ward as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The plot premise of an infectious disease outbreak is all too common among medical thrillers, but when you have a young investigator from the Centers for Disease Control looking into it and uncovering a shocking scheme, the result is a thrilling detective novel that is oriented in medicine, not just a medical thriller.

I especially loved how the text incorporates a hardboiled narrative tone in the spirit of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, something that is characteristic of crime fiction but not medical fiction.

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