Inside the Thriller

A Conspiracy of Data: Fail Safe — Not Safe

Book One of the SA Lonky Medical Thriller Series
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
Release Date: September 3, 2026

Dr. Alex Korman has built a comfortable life for himself on the edges of medicine. A boutique practice. Speaking engagements. A reputation built on toxic exposure research that keeps him credible without pulling him back into the grind he left behind. His ex-wife is gone. The hospital politics are someone else’s problem. The big calls, the ones that cost you sleep, belong to other people now.

Then Butler Hawkes calls.

Max Fischer, the legendary mentor Korman walked away from twenty years ago, wants to see him. Urgently. Within minutes of their reunion on a Los Angeles street, Max is dead. Hit in what looks like an accident. But Korman knows what an accident looks like. This is not one.

The encrypted data Max was carrying points at something vast. A medical conspiracy thriller built around a fail-safe AI system that was designed to protect patients and has been quietly repurposed to do the opposite. A healthcare infrastructure held together by profit margins, digital manipulation, and the absolute certainty that no one who knows the truth will live long enough to prove it.

Korman knows too much. His expertise in chemical exposures and biochemical defense mechanisms makes him the most dangerous man in the room. And someone already knows that.

A Conspiracy of Data: Fail Safe — Not Safe is the best medical thriller series opener of 2026. Written by a physician author with forty years of clinical experience, it is not a story about how medicine could go wrong. It is a story about how medicine already has.

“Shit happens to me. Maybe I shouldn’t talk like that. It’s unprofessional, and after all, I am a doctor. Or, as my ex-wife Sandy always reminded me, a physician. Healing arts. All that crap… In the middle of this rather boring but predictable life, I get a call from someone named Butler Hawkes, a name that invites all kinds of distrust, telling me my former mentor, Max Fischer, wants to meet with me.” — Opening Lines, Chapter One.