Review: Dunbar prequel?
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 20, 2013
This is an almost Dr. Dunbar book. Tall widower MD helping people. Finishing the Dr. Dunbar series I am now trying McClure's other books and they are quite good.McClure hit a jackpot (so to speak) with the concept of SciMed, a mythical part of UK Home Office that works wonders for Dr. Dunbar. Not present here. Very useful concept, somewhat similar to the ancient concept of Deus ex machina, God on wheels, translated loosely.Read Dunbar books for more details.Despite being a Scots, McClure uses cleverly the Portuguese/Sephardic name Pereira to make his point critical of 'public' (read private) British school graduates.Even without Dr. Dunbar and SciMed this book is worth reading with a conceivable science behind it - as far as I know, about 20 years later after its original publication date gene therapy is still not a standard clinical tool.I prefer the Dunbar series but this is kind of promising prequel to them.