The Select

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The Select is a novel written by American author and medical doctor F. Paul Wilson. It was first published in England in 1993 as The Foundation under Wilson's pen name Colin Andrews. In the following year, it was released in the US as by F. Paul Wilson.

F. Paul Wilson novelist

Francis Paul Wilson is an American author, primarily in the science fiction and horror genres.

The book is a suspense thriller in the style of Robin Cook about a student named Quinn Cleary who discovers that her fellow students are being brainwashed in a prestigious medical school named the Ingraham. Campus Security personnel are officially sanctioned, mainly by means of illegal electronic surveillance, to pinpoint potential troublemakers and to assist in neutralizing them. The top administrators are not averse to using extreme countermeasures to protect their sacred charter.

Suspense is a state of mental uncertainty, anxiety, of being undecided, or of being doubtful. In a dramatic work, suspense is the anticipation of the outcome of a plot or of the solution to an uncertainty, puzzle, or mystery, particularly as it affects a character for whom one has sympathy. However, suspense is not exclusive to fiction.

Robin Cook British Labour Party politician

Robert Finlayson Cook was a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Livingston from 1983 until his death, and served in the Cabinet as Foreign Secretary from 1997 until 2001, when he was replaced by Jack Straw.


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