Good Standing: A Medical Conspiracy Thriller
Paperback
Publisher: Carter Bryson
Published: Aug 2 2026
Pages: 284
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Dr. Hannah Cross has spent fifteen years earning the trust of strangers.
As one of the region's most respected emergency physicians, she's built a career on impossible decisions, split-second judgments, and an unwavering promise to do the right thing when lives hang in the balance.
Then, in the middle of an ordinary shift, security escorts her out of the hospital.
No accusation.
No investigation.
No hearing.
According to the systems every hospital relies on, Hannah is simply... unable to verify.
Within hours, every hospital that once welcomed her closes its doors. Her credentials vanish behind a bureaucratic nightmare no one can explain. Every phone call leads to another dead end. Every database insists she no longer exists as the physician she's always been.
The records proving her innocence are still there.
But the systems designed to verify them have turned against her.
As rumors spread and colleagues begin to question everything they thought they knew, Hannah and her husband race to uncover who-or what-has erased her professional identity before the damage becomes irreversible.
Because someone understands a terrifying truth:
In a world where institutions trust databases more than people, you don't have to destroy someone's reputation.
You only have to make the system stop recognizing it.
As Hannah follows the trail deeper into the hidden machinery that governs modern medicine, she discovers her case isn't an isolated mistake. It is the first crack in something far larger-a secret capable of destroying careers, rewriting truth, and quietly deciding who gets to exist inside the systems that control all of us.
Good Standing is an intelligent, relentlessly suspenseful conspiracy thriller about identity, trust, and the invisible networks that shape our lives. Perfect for readers of Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, John Grisham, and Joseph Finder, it delivers authentic medical detail, unforgettable characters, and a chilling premise that will leave you questioning just how much of your life depends on systems you've never seen.
Because sometimes the most dangerous conspiracy isn't hiding in the shadows.
It's already running in the background.
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