BookBrowse Reviews Isolation Ward: A funny, smart and skilled writer at the beginning of what readers will hope is a long and prolific career. Medical Thriller

From the book jacket: 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 too late…

In Baltimore's St. Raphael's Hospital, three newly admitted patients are among society's most helpless citizens: female residents of Baltimore's group homes for the mentally impaired, their bodies racked by a virus the likes of which no one at St. Raphael's has ever seen.

Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is one of the first on the scene. A young investigator from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Nate is paid to explore the bizarre, the exotic, and the...