The Select

First edition (publ. Headline)

The Select is a 1994 novel written by American author and medical doctor F. Paul Wilson. It was first published in England as The Foundation and uses British-style punctuation.

The book is a suspense thriller in the style of Robin Cook about a student named Quinn Cleary who discovers that her fellow students are being brainwashed in a prestigious medical school named the Ingraham. Campus Security personnel are officially sanctioned, mainly by means of illegal electronic surveillance, to pinpoint potential troublemakers and to assist in neutralizing them. The top administrators are not averse to using extreme countermeasures to protect their sacred charter.