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Plastic surgeon Gareth Lloyd splits his time between repairing accident victims at local hospitals and trying-largely in vain-to persuade his private patients in a Los Angeles suburb to have the kind of expensive nips and tucks so popular in Beverly Hills. Divorced, behind in his support payments for his two daughters, and about to turn 40, Lloyd's main connection to the glamorous side of plastic surgery is the affair he has just ended with the wife...
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DC heart surgeon Dr. Steven Leeds is suddenly besieged by a handful of immensely complicated heart attack and stroke cases, all caused by a rare arterial injury-a dissection. And all the victims have first received innocuous-looking cards announcing: "Your heart attack/stroke will arrive within one hour!"
Private detective Kirk Miner and FBI agent Jack Mulville investigate, and they immediately suspect Leeds' former lover, Dr. Silvana Moretti,...
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Doctor Peter Branstead's neurology department at St. Mark's Hospital in New York's picturesque Greenwich Village is flooded with a series of critically ill vagrants exhibiting identical symptoms. Confused and agitated upon admission, they rapidly progress into convulsions, cardiac arrest, and death. The deaths are too methodical to be a coincidence, but how-and why-are they being killed?
Peter's investigation leads him into a dark underworld of...
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She has every reason to trust them . . . Claire Weaver's been admitted to a state-of-the-art medical institute in Miami. It's equipped with a brilliant staff devoted to the latest in cutting-edge medical wizardry. Her life is in their hands. She has every reason to fear them . . . Erin Wells is a reporter for the AMA News, and Claire's closest friend. She's arrived to extoll the advances of the world-renowned institute and to lend support to Claire....
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Four psychiatric managed care companies take the next logical step in their obsession with cost containment and begin to secretly murder chronic mental patients, making it look like an accident or suicide. After Dr. James Corrigan and his wife are savagely attacked by a former patient, he joins the Death Panel and gets sucked into their vortex of evil. Everything begins to unravel when one of Dr. Corrigan's friends is sentenced to death and he is...
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Virus Thirteen is an irreverent and contagious thriller from debut author Joshua Alan Parry.
Scientists James Logan and his wife, Linda, have their dream careers at the world's leading biotech company, GeneFirm, Inc. But, their happiness is interrupted by a devastating bioterrorist attack: a deadly superflu that quickly becomes a global pandemic. The GeneFirm complex goes into lockdown and Linda's research team is sent to high-security underground...
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Hard-working, second year pediatric resident Dr. Egan is chronically exhausted, as are most residents at Malloy Medical Center, a very busy New York CIty hospital that is humming with activity 24 hours a day and renowned for both its transplant service and in vitro fertilization clinic. One day Egan is woken at 3 AM to see a baby who has arrived in the emergency room with early signs of bacterial meningitis. Despite Egan's frantic efforts, the baby...
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Washington DC-and terror in an isolated government-sanctioned medical laboratory as the potential of medicine goes horrifyingly wrong.
When Susan, a young researcher, loses her fiancée in a terrible accident, she is seduced by Michael, a friend and the head doctor on a top-secret neurometric project backed by the White House and the famed Borg-Harrison Foundation. Joining Michael's team, Susan is unaware of the terrible danger she faces in the high-security...
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Was it a Cure for Cancer, or Drug Company Greed.
-Thousands are dead! Now the questions must be answered about the drug that was called the great cure for cancer! Two years after its release, thousands of cured patients inexplicitly died. The drug was recalled. Then came the questions, was it terrorist sabotage? Was it greed? Or, was it outright murder by an insane research scientist in retaliation against the pharmaceutical giant he worked and to...
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STONE COLD BLACKOUT is a fast-paced thriller whose protagonist is a young surgeon, Dr. Julia Jensen. Julia began her career as an emergency physician but changed her chosen specialty after a tragic case. A young boy was brought to her ER with a severe allergic reaction and dies after she attempts a life-saving procedure. Many years later, Julia opens a surgical practice in a faraway town. After a night of heavy drinking, she's told she performed an...
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Angela, Bill's lover, is acutely ill in the emergency department at the academic hospital where they both work. He is the successful and influential academic surgeon with the aristocratic family pedigree. She is the nurse from an immigrant Italian family. She knows too much, and she could ruin his reputation. She needs emergency surgery. She has no choice but to trust him with her life.
What if something were to happen during her surgery? What...
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JC Simmons
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2012.
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J.C. Simmons, Mississippi's legendary author, returns with the tenth in the Jay Leicesterpronounced "Lester" Mysteries series. Familiar and beloved characters, Rose English, Shack Runnels, Hebrone Opshinsky, and B.W., the Siamese cat, join in a medical thriller set in the Deep South and Colorado Rockies. From Gulf of Mexico waters to mountain ski resorts, Leicester deals with the disappearance of close friend and retired Radiologist, J.D. Ballard,...
13) The Price
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Alexandra Sokoloff
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2011
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"What would you do to save your child? Your wife? Your soul? Boston District Attorney Will Sullivan dreams of becoming the next governor of Massachusetts. With his beautiful wife, Joanna, and adorable daughter, Sydney, Will seems destined for greatness. . .until Sydney becomes seriously ill. Now both parents resolve to do anything to save their daughter's life. But in the twilight world of Briarwood Medical Center, nothing is as it seems. Patients...
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