On the night of the State of the Union address, President James Allaire expects to give the speech of his career. But no one anticipates the terrifying turn of events that forces him to quarantine everyone in the Capitol building. A terrorist group calling itself “Genesis” has unleashed WRX3883, a deadly, highly contagious virus, into the building. No one fully knows the deadly effect of the germ except for the team responsible for its development—a team headed by Allaire, himself. The only one who might be able to help is virologist Griffin Rhodes, currently in solitary confinement in ...
From the blockbuster, New York Times bestselling author comes a high-concept, high-octane thriller at the crossroads of presidential politics and cutting-edge medicine…Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were roommates at the Naval Academy in Annapolis years ago. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States. One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter presidential election campaign, Marine One lands on Gabe's Wyoming ranch, and President Stoddard delivers a disturbing revelation and a startling request. His personal physician has suddenly and ...
The New York Times bestselling author and master of medical suspense delivers another shocker of a thriller filled with insider details and a terrifying psychopathFour murders.Three accidents.Two suicides.One left.THE LAST SURGEONMichael Palmer's latest novel pits a flawed doctor against a ruthless psychopath, who has made murder his art form. Dr. Nick Garrity, a vet suffering from PTSD – post traumatic stress disorder – spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless and disenfranchised in D.C. and Baltimore. In addition, he is ...
La v?spera del d?a en que Evie va a ser operada, su esposo, el doctor Harry Corbett, va al hospital con la esperanza de reconciliarse con ella tras una ?poca de indiferencia y mutismo. Pero cuando llega a la habitaci?n de Evie ya es demasiado tarde. Sin nada que hubiese podido hacer temer por su vida, Harry se la encuentra muerta y se convierte as? en el ?nico sospechoso del asesinato. Unos d?as m?s tarde, sin embargo, la mano asesina vuelve a actuar de modo tan audaz como desafiante, pero s?lo el doctor Corbett sospecha que las muertes no se est?n produciendo por causas naturales. Empieza aqu? una lucha desesperada para desenmascarar al monstruo homicida que tiene en jaque a todos los pacientes del hospital.Michael Palmer ha conseguido una sobrecogedora novela de intriga m?dica, un impresionante thriller protagonizado por el m?dico m?s siniestro aparecido en la literatura de terror desde los tiempos de Hannibal Lecter.
