Doctor God is set in Australia, in the early 1990s, with flashbacks to London in 1949-52. At Civic Hospital, Canberra, a routine test for a brain tumour erupts into a crisis and a talented young man's life is at stake. Max Godfrey, the Director of Harbings Institute for scientific research is called upon to solve the mystery, only to find he might have been the cause. Both his career and new-found love are at stake if the past is revealed. What was the secret behind the drug trial he worked on in the 1950's; and was the fire that killed the local doctor an accident – or murder? Max is not the only person seeking the truth . . .