| With one nerve-shattering New York Timesbestseller after another, Michael Palmerhas demonstrated his extraordinary abilityto create medical thrillers that are at oncerelentlessly suspenseful and chillinglyrealistic. And now the former ER physicianreturns with the stunning and explosivetalc of a gifted neurosurgeon drawn into aworld of escalating danger and violence,all because of...Dr. Jessie Copeland is exactly where shewant.s to be: A respected neurosurgeon atEastern Mass Medical Center, she spends herdays waging life-and-death battles in theOR and her spare time holed up in a lab,spearheading the development of a tinyrobot that could revolutionize brain surgery.ARTIE--Assisted Robotic Tissue Incisionand Extraction--is an exciting fusion ofbiomechanics and radiology that, whenperfected, will be able to excise tumors nowconsidered inoperable. But it could bemonths before ARTIE is ready for use onhuman beings...or so Jessie thinks, until herambitious departmenthead jumps the gunand uses the robot in a high-profile casethat nets immediate worldwide attention.Suddenly the hospital is swarming withmedia, wing for a multimillion-dollar grant,and fielding calls from patients desperatefor this lifesaving technology. But what noone at the medical center realizes is thatthe publicity has also reached one of themost malevolent men on earth.Claude Malloche is brilliant, secretive,remorseless, and without regard for humanlife--a mercenary willing to bring down aworld leader or a jetliner filled with peopleif the price is right. He is also ill with alife-threatening brain tumor that is exactly |
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