Faisal Iqbal

Six liters of air stand between existence and the absolute void. How long can you hold yours?Dr. Julianne Vance is a brilliant senior pulmonologist at St. Jude's Hospital, a woman whose entire life is calibrated to the respiration rates of others. She knows the fragile boundary between life and death. But during a quiet midnight shift, the arrival of an unidentified John Doe shatters her clinical world.
The patient isn't suffering from standard respiratory failure; his neurological pathways are being systematically dissolved from the inside out. Before taking his final, agonizing gasp, he whispers Julianne's private name and leaves behind a horrifying clue: a thick, midnight-blue fluid running from his lips that perfectly matches the signature ink of Julianne's late father. Within hours, the body vanishes, a total blackout plunges the hospital into chaos, and a chilling message appears inside her locked office: BREATHE.
Forced into a terrifying cat-and-mouse game, Julianne uncovers a dark, institutional conspiracy. A designer neurotoxin is being weaponized within the pristine walls of St. Jude's to eliminate liabilities under the guise of natural cardiac arrests. The orchestrator of this nightmare isn't a stranger-it's someone she trusts implicitly, a predator tracking her every move through the hospital corridors.
From the sterile wards to a decaying family estate and an abandoned concrete factory, Julianne must use her medical intellect to decode a twisted ledger before her thirty-minute countdown expires. Trapped in a room running out of oxygen, she faces the ultimate clinical evaluation: survive the poison, or become another silent statistic on a monitor screen. Stolen Breath is a fiercely fast-paced, high-concept medical psychological thriller packed with suffocating tension, claustrophobic paranoia, and razor-sharp twists.
Perfect for fans of Robin Cook, Tess Gerritsen, and The Silent Patient.