Brains: The Sensational Hospital Thriller

This taut hospital thriller opens with James Gray reflecting on his Nobel Prize for Medicine, in which he pays tribute to a simple fisherman whom he dubs the Einstein of Medicine, whose dangerous research into shark brains led to his breakthrough. It was this man, and not himself, who found the cure for cancer. As James relates, "He was not the arrogant and sadistic criminal that the tabloids attacked with frenzy. ... It's true to say he made mistakes and some died, but how many are surviving now?" Probably closer to science fact than science fiction, this novel is a powerful cocktail of sex, dope, and medical research, that spirals into jealousy, revenge and murder. Deliciously trashy, 'Brains' is a fast paced, plausibly woven, compelling read.