Point of Balance
A Thriller
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
In this “perfectly balanced, fast-paced, and compelling thriller” (Booklist, starred review), a top neurosurgeon is forced to choose between ending the life of the most important person in America or guaranteeing his own daughter’s horrifying death.
I am no saint, no martyr, no terrorist, no madman, and no murderer…I am a father. That’s my story.
Dr. David Evans is a well-respected brain surgeon at a hospital in Washington, DC, and a devoted father. But soon he is faced with the ultimate dilemma: if his next patient, who must undergo brain surgery, leaves the operating table alive, Dr. Evans’s kidnapped daughter will die at the hands of an implacable psychopath—and he will be forced to watch.
Over the course of fifty-five frantic hours counting down to his choice in the surgery room, Dr. Evans races to hunt down his pursuer and find a way out of this nightmarish predicament. But just how far will he go to save his daughter’s life?
Called “a roller coaster ride of fear and excitement unparalleled in modern fiction” by New York Times bestselling author Katherine Neville, Point of Balance will keep you on the edge of your seat with fast-paced action and raw emotion, as one man faces an impossible moral dilemma that could change the course of history.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Dave Evans, the narrator of this unrelentingly suspenseful thriller from Jurado (The Moses Expedition), explains how he came to be on death row. Once a neurosurgeon at a hospital in Washington, D.C., he was so prominent that the U.S. president's wife asked him to operate on her husband to remove a brain tumor. Since his own wife's suicide, Dave has been solely responsible for his seven-year-old daughter, Julia. Arriving home one night, he finds Julia and her babysitter missing. A man who calls himself Mr. White informs Dave in person that he has Julia and will not return her unless Dave makes sure the president dies from the operation. Mr. White shows Dave pictures on an iPad of Julia trapped in an underground pit and says her oxygen supply won't last past the night of the chief executive's scheduled surgery. Because his house, office, and cell phone are monitored, Dave can't contact anyone without risking Julia's life. He must either find Julia or kill the president. The action builds to a shocking and surprising ending.