DescriptionA seemingly random virus known as Reaper is killing people and spreading fast through television and computer monitors all over the country. Only two people can stop the epidemic: young virologist Samantha Craig and paramedic Nick Barnes. Nick and Samantha encounter mylar body paint, stealth helicopters, ingenious programmers, a high-powered technological cabal, and a megalomaniacal billionaire, all in a race to prevent the Information Superhighway from becoming a weapon of mass destruction. This first novel from Ben Mezrich draws on the latest medical and technological research to deliver an utterly believable tale of suspense.
DescriptionEmerging from anesthesia, county prosecutor Katie DeMaio witnesses what she prefers to believe is a nightmare induced by her physical condition - a familiar figure carrying a woman's body into his car in the middle of the night. The woman is found dead the next day and deemed a suicide, but Katie is determined to uncover the real cause. In her search, she encounters several suspects, all of whom seem respectable but are actually hiding shocking secrets, and a medical conspiracy that must be hidden at all costs. As she returns to the hospital for routine surgery, she finds that she must not only fight for the truth, but for her own life.
DescriptionDrs. Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk once worked together to research a horrifying virus outbreak in the Congo. Now Pearse heads the Bureau of Disease Control and Maryk runs the clandestine special pathogens section of the disease detectives - making the 2 scientists bitter enemies. But when the disease from the Congo re-emerges in America, they must set aside their differences in order to stop a potential worldwide epidemic. Using the blood of one woman who is immune to the disease, they create a serum that might work, if the disturbingly cunning virus doesn't have plans of its own.
DescriptionDr. Rafael Neruda investigates a patient's troubling death, uprooting unsettling aspects of his own past in the process. The renowned psychiatrist never expected his search to force him to face his own unimaginably painful childhood, and, more horrifyingly, the nature of evil itself. Risking both his personal and professional future, Dr. Neruda devises the ultimate test for his cure of evil - a cure that becomes a shocking journey of eroticism, manipulation, and danger. American literary phenomenon Rafael Yglesias delivers a breakthrough novel, as intimate as it is sprawling, as thought-provoking as it is thoroughly entertaining.
DescriptionAn agonizing sports injury did more than end Brian Holbrook's professional football dreams. It left the skilled cardiologist with an addiction to prescription painkillers that eventually cost him his marriage and his license to practice medicine. But now…
DescriptionA prestigious medical clinic has an incredibly successful new treatment for a rare type of brain cancer...but is the cure more deadly than the disease? When brilliant Harvard medical student Sean Murphy joins the staff of the Forbes Clinic for a two-month elective, he's anxious to learn about the new breakthrough, but is not permitted to participate in the project. Sean struggles to learn about the mysterious cure and is joined by nurse Janet Reardon. Together they discover sinister goings-on at the clinic and must wind their way through a deadly maze of secrets behind the clinic's white-scrubbed walls. When they do, they're faced with the horrid potential of high-tech biomedical research.
DescriptionThe master of medical suspense brings us yet another novel of controversy, biology, and human greed. Internist and emergency specialist Matt Rutledge has spent the last five years of his life in Belinda, West Virginia, trying to find the links between the deaths of his father and his (Matt's) wife. He suspects the Belinda Coke and Coal Company has released toxic chemicals into the environment that have caused the "Belinda Syndrome, " a miasma of symptoms that include violent and deadly paranoia in some, Ebola-like hemorrhaging in others. But he lacks proof. Meanwhile, two women come to Belinda, each pursued by violent death. Together with Matt Rutledge, they must get to the bottom of the "Belinda Syndrome" and avert a potential plague, while under mortal threat themselves.
