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Flashback

an intensely gripping and spine-tingling medical thriller that you won't be able to put down. A real edge-of-your-seat ride!

By: Michael Palmer

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Paperback | 6 July 2001 | Edition Number 1

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544 Pages

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17.6 x 11.2 x 3.4

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A medical thriller in the bestselling tradition of Robin Cook

From the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer comes this unsettling, frightening and mesmerising medical thriller that ingeniously combines an accomplished plot with authentic scientific detail. A page turner from beginning to end that fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love.

READERS ARE LOVING FLASHBACK!
'A keep you up all night type of book' -- ***** Reader review
'A good read from beginning to end' -- ***** Reader review
'Nail-biting, even scary at times... carefully researched and utterly credible. A very good read.' -- ***** Reader review
'I lost a lot of sleep reading this one - because I couldn't put it down!' -- ***** Reader review
'Wonderfully entertaining' -- ***** Reader review
'Enjoyed from cover to cover'-- ***** Reader review

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ONE ROUTINE OPERATION. ONE HORRIFYING SECRET.

Toby Nelms is an ordinary 8-year-old boy who needs a routine operation. Everything seems to go well - the surgery is a success and Toby is sent home.

Months later, terror begins to take over Toby's life - he keeps on bursting into tortured screaming. He has begun to relive every moment of his operation - including the immense pain.

Neurosurgeon Zack Iverson must discover why the young boy is re-experiencing every detail of the operation.
Unsettlingly, Toby is not the only patient who is suffering this strange and horrific effect after surgery.

Iverson needs to get to the bottom of what is causing this, and find out the truth quickly, before another patient is wheeled into the Operating Room, to experience every slice of the scalpel's merciless blade for the rest of their life...

Industry Reviews

Toby's operation was routine - a complete success. Why then ten months later is the eight year old repeatedly bursting into tortured screams - reliving every horrific, excrutiating detail of the surgery - while he is awake? And he's not the only one.... But can hospital-newcomer, neurosurgeon Zak Iverson discover what is going on at Ultramed before the next patient literally dies of fright? With its pacey narrative, fascinating medical procedural insight, a glamorous surgeon-hero battling at great personal risk to discover the truth, a feisty love interest and the underlying tension between the thrust of commerce and the checks of medical ethics, Flashback bears all the hallmarks of vintage Palmer. Readers might therefore be surprised to learn that this is in fact one of his earlier novels, first published in 1988 but not previously available outside the US. While not quite up to the near-heart-stopping tension of The Patient, Flashback will enthrall all fans - provided, of course, they are not about the undergo surgery. (Kirkus UK)

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