The fourth procedure - Stanley Pottinger

It starts with the bodies - apparently random victims of a serial killer but with one gruesome common factor: all the corpses have been autospied before they find their way to the pathologist's slab.

Journalist Molly McCormick knows she's on to a big story. But she can't guess just how big. As she painstakingly assembles the pieces of the puzzle, she uncovers a daring medical conspiracy that aims to challenge the US legal establishment and turn goverment policy on its head.

THE FOURTH PROCEDURE is the most terrifying legal-medical thriller ever. Exploring fundamental issues of life and death, it takes the reader beyond the boundaries of reality to an all-too-plausible nightmare scenario of a world gone mad.