Requiem by Ken McClure

Ken McClure is the author of many medical based thrillers and Requiem, written way back in the nineties, is typical of his style.   The book opens as a prominent surgeon is operating to rectify a young woman's facial deformity however he dies before completing the operation.   His female assistant takes over but botches the job and the main thrust of the story concerns the lengths that the hospital will go to in covering it up.   In addition to this the main character,  a journalist called Kincaid, discovers that other patients are dying in circumstances where the expectation would be survival if not complete recovery.   This all turns out to be the work of a "Right Wing" conspiracy.   Why are all these fictional conspiracies "Right Wing"?   All my life all the conspiracies that have been uncovered have been "Left Wing",  the Cambridge Spies for example.   Could it be that all those revolting students from the Sixties are now senior executives of publishing houses and insist that their writers make any conspiracies "Right Wing"   I have read several of McClure's thrillers and they have all been entertaining enough for me to recommend them to others but he has made a great mistake in attempting to introduce politics into what should be merely an amusement.