These 15 Medical Thrillers Will Have Your Head Spinning

Richard Preston's terrifying novel The Cobra Event will have your heart pounding. It takes place in New York City in the late '90s; 17 year-old Kate Moran wakes up feeling as if she has a head cold. Only hours later, she is convulsing, blood rushing from her nose, and, most bizarrely, has begun a "hideous process of self-cannibalization." When other similar cases start appearing, Dr. Alice Austen begins a journey to discover what is causing these deaths.