The Patient
A fast-moving medical thriller that will keep you guessing…
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Publisher Description
This exciting, graphic and pacy thriller from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer is jam-packed with twists and turns and nail-biting tension. Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will not be disappointed.
'Gripping and fresh...wrenchingly scary' -- Publishers Weekly
'Palmer brings his fascinating ER procedural knowledge to a fast-paced narrative.' -- San Francisco Chronicle
'Manages to scare the socks off the reader' -- Toronto Globe and Mail
'Brilliant book.' -- ***** Reader review
'Terrifying plot - keeps you on the edge of your seat.' -- ***** Reader review
'Awesome' -- ***** Reader review
'A real page-turner' -- ***** Reader review
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A RUTHLESS KILLER. A DEADLY DILEMMA.
Gifted and highly respected, Dr Jessie Copeland is about to revolutionise the field of neurosurgery with her ground-breaking bio-engineering invention.
Claude Malloche is suffering from a brain tumour, beyond the treatment of existing medical practice, and only Dr Copeland and her new technique can save him.
But Malloche is the mysterious and ruthless killer holding the Boston hospital where Jessie works, and the city, to ransom. If Jessie fails to cure him, hundreds of innocent people will die...
But if she succeeds, will Malloche only disappear once more to continue his deadly work?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Palmer's ninth medical thriller (after Miracle Cure) probably isn't the book to be reading when you've got a slight headache. Early on, a star Olympic gymnast feels a small pain in her skull, and soon she's having a brain tumor zapped by a flashy new surgical robot. The author, who was a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine for 20 years, tells readers so much about the actual work of brain surgery that some might decide to skip over a few of the more agonizing moments, such as the frenzied operation on a young boy with a bullet wound. Yet these bloody and painful details put readers firmly inside the skin of Dr. Jessie Copeland, a neurosurgeon in her 40s with a combined undergraduate degree in biology and mechanical engineering. Now working under egomaniacal chief surgeon Carl Gilbride at a top Boston hospital, Jessie gets to try out ARTIE (Assisted Robotic Tissue Incision and Extraction) on cadavers, while Gilbride coaxes foundations to cough up millions for the revolutionary new procedure. Attracted by the media attention generated by ARTIE's use (too early, Jessie thinks) on the gymnast, shadowy terrorist Claude Malloche, known as "the Mist," who also has a brain tumor, comes to the hospital for treatment--and winds up holding patients and staff hostage in case the operation fails. It's finally up to Jessie and a rogue CIA agent to keep everyone healthy. This graft between medical and terrorist thriller has some rough edges, but the operation is a success.
