This compelling thriller from the author of Silent Treatment is available for the first time in the UK.
If you like Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook, you will love this engrossing and spine-tingling thriller from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. It will get your blood racing and your heart pumping...
'Dynamite plot... past-paced and engrossing.' -- Washington Post
'Gripping and fresh... wrenchingly scary' -- Publishers Weekly
'Manages to scare the socks off the reader' -- Toronto Globe and Mail
'Truly well written piece with suspense from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review
'Compelling page turner' -- ***** Reader review
'Couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review
'Gripping, suspenseful and hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review
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MYSTERIOUS DEATHS AND A HORRIFYING SECRET THEY'LL STOP AT NOTHING TO PROTECT
Dr. Kate Bennett is a brilliant young pathologist with a loving husband and a bright future. But her world is about to be turned upside down.
At the Omnicenter - a high-tech health facility for women - a strange and puzzling illness has killed two patients. The illness has no definite cause, let alone a cure.
When Kate is called in to investigate the mysterious deaths, she stumbles upon a terrible medical discovery which has its roots in one of the greatest evils in the history of humankind. Now her best friend has fallen ill and is presenting the same symptoms as the previous victims - and Kate must expose the sinister plot before it is too late.
However, with powerful enemies and few friends, Dr. Bennett's disturbing discovery comes to threaten not only her career, but also her marriage, her sanity and her life.
Industry Reviews
Those who feel disheartened by the state of the NHS in Britain can take dubious comfort; according to Michael Palmer, things are very much worse in the United States! Needless to say, this is a medical melodrama, and power-hungry doctors, crazed medical technicians and terminally greedy pharmaceutical companies rampage at will through hospital wards, casually experimenting with whatever patient they choose. This sitation is not rare in Palmer's thrillers, though we can rely on the hero battling his way through corpses and malicious authorities to a final triumph. In this case the brew is thickened by the hidden presence of a Nazi survivor of the Women's Death Camp at Ravensbruck, still intent on proving his sterilization theories at whatever human cost. This time too, the hero is a woman, the brave and beautiful Dr Kate Bennett. Not only must she fight to save lives, to expose the jealous villains who would deny her the role of Head of Pathology, but she has a personal problem - she has promised her husband to leave work and have a child, yet she fears both motherhood and his seeming denial of her right to her own career. The drama increases non-stop, and those who are happy to suspend belief will have an exciting few hours with the labyrinthine excesses of Palmer's cast of medical malpractitioners. Review by Sister Wendy Beckett (Kirkus UK)
