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"Resistant"
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A stunning page-turner.
Palmer weaves the
scariest novel yet.
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They fight without conscience or remorse.
Their only job is to kill.
They are the most ruthless enemy we have ever faced.
And they are one millionth our size.
Their only job is to kill.
They are the most ruthless enemy we have ever faced.
And they are one millionth our size.
Welcome to the Center for Disease Control where the world’s deadliest germs lie in wait. When a scientist working on a top secret case is kidnapped, it’s just the beginning.
From the hospital corridors where anything you touch can mean your end, to the top corridors of power in this race against time, Dr. Lou Welcome must stop an epidemic, save his best friend, and face even his own most terrifying demons.
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"The First Patient" was my first exposure to Michael Palmer -- and I was impressed. He warmed up as the exciting story unfolded. Finished it in two days and was impressed with the surprise ending and the epilogue.Palmer takes the most complicated of topics, nanotechnology, and weaves it in to a modern-day suspense story with live bodiless brains and an underground, secret lab. Throughout the story, the logical part of my mind was screaming this couldn’t happen in real life. All the while, the other part of me wondered if it could. The end result had me believing it’s a very real possibility.
The story opens with the President of the United States, Andrew “Drew” Stoddard, enlisting the aid of an old friend, Dr. Gabe Singleton. The President’s previous physician has disappeared and he needs someone he can trust.
Reluctantly, Gabe accepts the job. After arriving at the White House, but before settling in, he discovers the President isn’t well. For the past three months, the President has had four mysterious episodes resembling a seizure. Dr. Ferendelli had been working on the mystery when he disappeared and now Gabe is left with this responsibility. With pressure to invoke the Twenty-fifth Amendment, Gabe is in a race against time to find out what’s causing this mystery illness.
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"Fatal" In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering from nothing more malevolent than flulike symptoms begins hemorrhaging from every part of her body. In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured by and unknown disease, rapidly descends in a lethal paranoia. In Belind, West Virginia, a miner suddenly goes berserk, causing a cave-in that kills two of his coworkers. Finding the link among these events could prove to be FATAL.
I found this book difficult to read because of the lack of reality.
Genesis, a domestic terrorist organization has released a deadly, highly contagious virus into the State of the Union Address. The president, Dr. Jim Allaire knows the virus well–his administration was developing it before he abandoned the project. Allaire is forced to quarantine the Capitol and all 700 in it. Our government’s only hope is Griffin Rhodes, a virologist whom Allaire has been holding in solitary confinement in a federal prison for nine months because of a suspected terrorist act.
Dr. Thea Sperelakis, diagnosed as a teen with Asperger’s syndrome, has always been an outsider. She has a brilliant medical mind, and a remarkable recall of details, but her difficulty in dealing with hidden agendas and interpersonal conflicts have led her to leave the complex, money-driven dynamics of the hospital, and to embrace working with the poor, embattled patients of Doctors Without Borders. Her father, Petros, is one of the most celebrated internal medicine specialists in the world, and the founder of the cutting-edge Sperelakis Center for Diagnostic Medicine at Boston’s sprawling, powerful Beaumont Clinic.
"Side Effects"
Kate Bennet. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Until one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate’s closest friend. Soon it will threaten Kate’s marriage. Her sanity. Her life. Kate has uncovered a horrifying secret. Important people will stop at nothing to protect it. It is a terrifying medical discovery. And its roots lie in one of the greatest evils in the history of humankind.
Kate Bennet. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Until one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate’s closest friend. Soon it will threaten Kate’s marriage. Her sanity. Her life. Kate has uncovered a horrifying secret. Important people will stop at nothing to protect it. It is a terrifying medical discovery. And its roots lie in one of the greatest evils in the history of humankind.
"The Sisterhood"
Inside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon’s knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of the night, they die. Suddenly, inexplicable, horribly. A tough, bright doctor will risk his very life-for a dedicated young nurse who unknowingly holds the answers.
"Extreme Measures"
Dr. Eric Najarian. He’s young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they’re looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn’t know he’s being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules. But Eric has already seen too much. A missing corpse. An unspeakable mutilation. A brutal abduction. It’s only the beginning of a plot of terrifying evil. A sinister plan the group will stop at nothing to hide. And if Eric refuses to become their colleague–he will be their next victim.
"The Last Surgeon"
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Michael 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 constantly on the lookout for his war buddy Umberto Vasquez, who was plucked from the streets by the military four years ago for a secret mission and has not been seen since.
Michael Palmer books list with an audio excerpt from his latest, "Oath of Office," Michael Palmer’s 17th novel, a medical/political thriller that introduces Dr. Lou Welcome.
First Lady Dr. Darlene Mallory is a pediatrician and wife of 2-year president Martin Mallory. She is trying to help her friend Russ Evans, who resigned as Secretary of Agriculture after an indiscretion in a motel with an underage woman. Evans claims to have been set up and Darlene believes him. She is contacted by a mysterious man who claims to have proof of Evans’ innocence and that Evans was forced out of office because of his policies against genetically modified food. Against her husband’s wishes, she sets out to clear Evans’ name.
Darlene’s efforts bring her together with Lou, who has become convinced that people are being adversely affected by the rapidly growing corn being produced and harvested by a huge, powerful corporation. Their feelings for one another intensify as they race against the clock, trying to stop a massive shipment of the genetically modified corn bound for worldwide distribution.
"Critical Judgment"
In the tiny town of Patience, California, newcomer Dr. Abby Dolan has noticed a frightening syndrome among her emergency room patients. It begins with a baffling, seemingly minor set of symptoms, but builds relentlessly until it plunges its victims into insane, murderous rages. As she searches for clues to this deadly mystery, Abby’s superiors make it clear her probing is unwelcome.
Soon Abby will learn just how high the cost of the truth may be–and how far someone will go to keep a lethal secret. But she may not find the answer until it’s too late to save her patients, her career… her life.
Soon Abby will learn just how high the cost of the truth may be–and how far someone will go to keep a lethal secret. But she may not find the answer until it’s too late to save her patients, her career… her life.
Reviews
"Wrenchingly scary...Palmer is reaching the top of a demanding craft." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This is a novel that manages to scare the socks off the reader while still providing made-for-Hollywood entertainment." --The Globe and Mail, Toronto
"Palmer [brings] his fascinating ER procedural knowledge to a fast-paced...narrative." --San Francisco Chronicle
"The Patient"
"Silent Treatment"
In brain surgery there are no guarantees — but that’s exactly what Malloche demands. With disaster just one cut away, Jessie faces the most harrowing case of her life — and the price of failure may be thousands of lives.
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Neurosurgeon Jessie Copeland works at the very frontier of neurosurgery, developing technology that could revolutionize the treatment of brain tumors. But her work brings her to the attention of an infinitely dangerous man.
Claude Malloche is brilliant, remorseless — a terrorist without regard for human life. He is also ill with a brain tumor considered to be inoperable. Nothing can stop Malloche from getting to the woman he believes can cure him. For those caught in his path, the nightmare has just begun … and no one is more aware of the stakes than Jessie Copeland.
In brain surgery there are no guarantees — but that’s exactly what Malloche demands. With disaster just one cut away, Jessie faces the most harrowing case of her life — and the price of failure may be thousands of lives.
With his wife, Evie, scheduled for surgery the next day, Dr. Harry Corbett goes to the hospital for what he hopes will be a quiet evening of reconciliation. In recent weeks Evie, never quick to share her feelings, has been more closed and distant than ever.
But when Harry reaches Evie’s room, it is too late for reconciliation. Shockingly, without warning, Evie is dead. The police suspect homicide. And their only suspect is Dr. Harry Corbett.
Harry is not prepared for the stunning revelations that follow: His bright, beautiful, highly ambitious wife was leading a double life; she may have had dangerous secrets. But what secret could have been explosive enough to die for?
Then the killer strikes again, boldly, tauntingly murdering one of Harry’s favorite patients in such a way that only Harry knows the death was not natural. This time Harry is certain: The killer, medically sophisticated, coolly arrogant, moving undetected through a busy urban hospital, could only be a doctor. And he wonders–how many more will die?
Desperately Harry probes deeper, following the only clue Evie left. What he finds is a sinister pattern that threatens patients in every hospital in the city. Harry is engaged in a life-and-death battle of wits with a chillingly efficient monster. And until the doctor is unmasked, no patient is safe from his lethal silent treatment.
"The Fifth Vial"
From the blockbuster, eleven-time New York Times bestselling author comes a novel of medical suspense that begins with these chilling questions: Who ends up with the blood samples you routinely give for tests? What else are they being used for? Why don't you know?
Take a Deep Breath. . . .
In Boston, a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career. . . . Four thousand miles away, in a jungle hospital in Cameroon, a brilliant, reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millions of lives, and bring others inestimable wealth. . . . In Chicago, a disillusioned private detective, on the way to his third career, is hired to determine the identify of a John Doe, killed on a Florida highway, with mysterious marks on his body.
Three seemingly disconnected lives, surging unrelentingly toward one another. Three lives becoming irrevocably intertwined. Three lives in mounting peril, moving ever closer to the ultimate confrontation against a deadly secret society with godlike aspirations and roots in antiquity.
Medical student. Scientist. Private eye. Three people who will learn the deeper meanings of brilliance and madness, truth and deception, trust and betrayal.
Three lives linked forever by a single vial of blood--the fifth vial.
"Political Suicide"
Dr. Lou Welcome, from Palmer’s bestselling Oath of Office, is back in this heart stopping medical thriller. A desperate phone call embroils Lou in scandal and murder involving Dr. Gary McHugh, known around the Capital as the “society doc.”
Lou has been supervising McHugh, formerly a black-out drinker, through his work with the Physician Wellness Office.
McHugh has been very cavalier about his recovery, barely attending AA and refusing a sponsor. But Lou sees progress, and the two men are becoming friends. Now, McHugh has been found unconscious in his wrecked car after visiting a patient of his, the powerful Congressman Elias Colston, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.
Soon after McHugh awakens in the hospital ER, Colston’s wife returns home to find her husband shot dead in their garage. She then admits to the police that she had just broken off a long-standing affair with McHugh.
Something about McHugh’s story has Lou believing he is telling the truth, that the Congressman was dead when he arrived and before he blacked out.
Lou agrees to look into matters, but when he encounters motive, method and opportunity he is hard pressed to believe in his friend—that is until a deadly high-level conspiracy begins to unravel, and Lou acquires information that makes him the next target.
