Honeycomb Publications · Medical & Political Thriller
Torsades de PointesThe Pulse Breaker
Some people are valuable. Some waste resources. Where do you draw the line—and who holds the pen?
A voluntary NHS cardiac implant conceals a programme that scores each patient on cost against worth. When the ledger judges a person too expensive to keep, the device induces a fatal arrhythmia that reads as natural. A registrar begins to see the pattern the numbers were built to hide.
The price a society puts on a human life. Medicine turned against the patient. Trust, stewardship, and the machinery of the state.
↓ Benefit
● past the line
A hospital that looks entirely ordinary, where the only sign of a killing is a line on a monitor sliding into torsades. Sterile calm against rising dread; a chess motif surfacing across scenes; a villain who never raises his voice.
For readers and viewers of Bodies, Utopia, Black Mirror and Line of Duty.
- Author
- Dr N T Pisharam
- Paperback ISBN
- 978-1-7397709-4-5
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-7397709-6-9
- Publication date
- 13 August 2026
- Print length
- 414 pages
Available 13 August 2026.
Kindle £6.99 · Paperback £14.99 · launches end of 2nd week Aug
Film and television rights are available.
Release: 13 August 2026ISBN 978-1-7397709-4-5