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​Dreams of Troy 

Armed with unique malware, two sophisticated female terrorists try to take down the medical infrastructures of Spain, France and Israel in an effort to negotiate the independence of the Basques, Corsicans and Palestinians. Their plot begins with a bombing at the Barcelona rail station, a deliberate distraction to mislead authorities. The simultaneous hospital admission of many uninjured by-standers creates an additional layer of mystery for senior MI-5 agent Elizabeth Foster. Once again, she calls on leading Stanford epidemiologist Jake Evans, and his Oxford colleague, Christopher Rose, microbiologist and IT expert, to help her decipher whether the two seemingly unrelated events are in fact connected. As Spanish government officials, anti-terror experts, and the trio of heroes race to solve the mystery, pressure mounts with the pending arrival in Spain of international heads of state for a Middle East policy summit. Dreams of Troy delves into loyalty, revenge and passion that flares in the heat of danger. 

Labyrinth of Terror

Terror reigns when a string of post-op infections erupts in the sanitized halls of King s College Hospital in London. A trio of experts – Microbiology Professor Chris Rose, Jake Evans, an American infectious disease specialist, and Elizabeth Foster, a senior agent with M15 – soon realize that the offending organism is a weapon in a worldwide terrorist plot. The terrorists turn their to focus on an upcoming medical-legal conference, hoping to infect hundreds and subsequently ravage the global community, as well as the very doctors who might be able to find a cure. Author and physician Richard Wenzel takes us on a riveting, winding journey through Europe and the Middle East, unravels the science of infections, and opens a revealing window on the complex politics of medicine.

Dreams of Troy

Labyrinth of Terror

“Richard Wenzel’s Labyrinth of Terror combines science and suspense in a thrill ride you won’t soon forget. Like Patricia Cornwall and Richard Preston, Wenzel – a world expert on infectious diseases and darn handy with a pen – applies technical detail in just the right measure while his international sleuths (microbiologists and an MI-5 agent) ply the edge of terror to head off a potential virulent epidemic. You won’t put this book down!”

– Dean King, author of Skeletons on the Zahara, 
Unbound and The Feud: The Hatfields and McCoys

Non-Fiction

Stalking Microbes

Wenzel recounts his complex detective work surrounding a puzzling fatal outbreak in the surgical ICU, a strange string of deaths near Charlottesville, VA, and the lessons learned in the Philippines and Bangladesh while studying cholera.

​Noted Yale bioethicist and author Sherwin Nuland described Stalking Microbes as a "unique and page-turning read ... by one of [infectious disease’s] ablest generals." Poet John Stone described Wenzel as "a wise and gentle Virgil ... an excellent storyteller."

Stalking Microbes