Need A Book To Escape Into? The Patient Is Just What The Doctor Ordered!
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Michael Palmer's ninth medical thriller is well-worth reading. Its plot, which thrusts a gifted neurosurgeon into a world of escalating danger and violence, is loaded with twists and turns and will keep you glued to your seat. Further, the characters are mostly well-developed and interesting. While The Patient is at times predictable and its ending is somewhat implausible, it nevertheless is a fun read and a real page-turner. The Patient is higjly recommended when you're in the mood for a book that is pure escapism. It's a highly charged thriller that will keep the pages flying through your fingers.
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Save the Killer, or Not, That is the Question
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Dr. Jessie Copeland, a gifted and respected neurosurgeon at one of Boston's leading hospitals, is dedicated to her work and to her patients, she is also at the forefront of developing a ground breaking technique that will revolutionize brain surgery.
Claude Malloche is suffeirng from a brain tumor and wants Jesse to treat him with her new technique, but he's a ruthless killer. Jessie faces a serious dilemma, if she saves him, he'll undoubtedly go on to kill again. To ensure that Jessie do her level best, Malloche holds both the hospital and the city to ransom. If Jessie fails, hundreds of innocent people will die.
Michael Palmer has written another pulse pounding medical thriller that drips with excitement, one you won't want to miss.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
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A Medical Thriller
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Michael Palmer is an M.D. that also happens to be a very good writter of suspense stories. And this is one of them. With the daily advances in medical research, the procedures in this book are not far off.
But even more important. This book is a fun and fast read. you will be turning the pages to see what happens next. If you like suspense, read it.
This medical thriller has a good plot that will keep you guessing. You will following the quest of an CIA agent who is after a villanius killer with single minded determination of a pit bull. And at the same time this killer is trying to find the best neurosurgen to remove a head turmor he knows has developed. The story really becomes engrossing as the killer choses his Doctor....
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Not as good as Palmer's other books!
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A very mediocre medical thriller (by Palmer's own standards, very very pedestrian indeed). The only gripping aspect is the technology of performing neurosurgery by ARTIE (Assisted Robotic Tissue Invasion and Extraction) and to some extent-- the lead character, which though, like other Palmer's books leans on a more gimmicky, highly stylised, cape-flowing, caffeine drugged neurosurgeon image, still evokes some genuine concern. But that's where Palmer's writing should be applauded-- its as succinct, palpable yet as believable as ever. But of course, the actual thriller aspect merely sends any shivers down the spine. Thanks to a not-so-difficult premise (to save a dying criminal on the operation table or not), surprisingly thin storyline, and a routine climax. The Patient feels really over-written in places. If it would have been half as long as it is, it had the potential to be a very gripping and even chilling story, but as of now-- the book remains very weak when talking of un-put-downablility factor, so very necessary in the thriller genre. There's precious little that makes you want to read right till the last page and the twists and turns in the plot are, as much as I hate to admit it, very cliched and guessable. I had always thought of Palmer as the master twister in medical thrillers-- but this time around, even he's resorted to expose-the-underdog routine as countless other writers. Still, as a consolation, I would say that the book isn't absolute trash and yes, even though its mediocre and has made me loathe Palmer a little, I am still as eager to read his other thrillers. Pity its nowhere near as potent and as chilling as his Silent Treatment and Critical Judgement, which are probably one of the best, not only by himbut in the whole med thriller genre.
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EXCELLENT - UNPUTDOWNABLE
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I have not read this author before - but I found it up with the best of medical crime novels. Excellent pace and plot development, with good characters and accurate medical science content. Having started it on a rainy morning, I couldn't put my light out until I had finished (at 2am!). Highly reccommended.
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