Five of the best medical thrillers

Jack Jordan is the global number one bestselling author of Anything for Her (2015), My Girl (2016), A Woman Scorned (2018), Before Her Eyes (2018), Night by Night (2019), and Do No Harm.

His forthcoming thriller is Conviction.

At the Waterstones blog Jordan tagged five top medical thrillers: "some reveal what happens when that trust between medical professional and civilian is tampered with, while others have the medical professionals as the heroes, racing to save humanity as we know it." One title on the list:

The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton

It would feel incredibly wrong not to include Michael Crichton in this list. Before embarking on his writing career, Crichton received an M.D from Harvard Medical School, which led to him creating one of the most infamous and longest running medical shows, ER. Steering away from the genetically-grown dinosaurs we all know and love him for, and returning to his literary breakout hit: The Andromeda Strain tells the story of a group of scientists in a race against time to discover what extra-terrestrial life force is killing people before the mysterious, allusive pathogens spread and become an unstoppable. One might say Crichton was one of the founding fathers of the high-concept medical thriller, and if you’ve yet to read a Crichton novel, The Andromeda Strain is a great place to start.

Read about the other entries on the list.

The Andromeda Strain is among Daniel Kalla's eight top pandemic thrillers, Jim Al-Khalili's ten top end-of-the-world novels, Lydia Kang's nine great medical thrillers, Jeff Somer's' nine science fiction novels that imagine the future, Neil deGrasse Tyson's six favorite books, and Joel Cunningham's 11 fictional maladies that will keep you up at night.

--Marshal Zeringue