Coma
ISBN: 9780316334464 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.
They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up. Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to... The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.
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Doctored Images
ISBN: 9781458213105 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Move over Robin Cook Robert Sherrier has taken the medical thriller to new heights A brutal Mexican cartel, a dying drug mule, and a radiologist who finds himself hopelessly out of his depth. Doctored Images has all the punch of a Greg Iles mystery and a protagonist in Dr. Bo Richards who makes Kay Scarpetta look like she slept through med school." -- Michael McBride, author of Burial Ground and Snowblind "Murder, mayhem and torture collide at warp speed." - Gil Brogdon, M.D., Editor of Brogdon's Forensic Radiology. Dr. Bo Richards is having a very... "Move over Robin Cook Robert Sherrier has taken the medical thriller to new heights A brutal Mexican cartel, a dying drug mule, and a radiologist... |
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196,79 zł |
Doctored Images
ISBN: 9781458213112 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Move over Robin Cook Robert Sherrier has taken the medical thriller to new heights A brutal Mexican cartel, a dying drug mule, and a radiologist who finds himself hopelessly out of his depth. Doctored Images has all the punch of a Greg Iles mystery and a protagonist in Dr. Bo Richards who makes Kay Scarpetta look like she slept through med school." -- Michael McBride, author of Burial Ground and Snowblind "Murder, mayhem and torture collide at warp speed." - Gil Brogdon, M.D., Editor of Brogdon's Forensic Radiology. Dr. Bo Richards is having a very... "Move over Robin Cook Robert Sherrier has taken the medical thriller to new heights A brutal Mexican cartel, a dying drug mule, and a radiologist... |
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103,66 zł |
Oaths and Miracles - A Robert Cavanaugh Genetic Thriller
ISBN: 9781612421773 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judy Kozinski needs answers. Her husband, a prominent genetic scientist, has been found murdered and no one can find a motive. *** In Las Vegas, a showgirl sends a cryptic message to FBI agent Robert Cavanaugh from a murdered friend. *** How are the two related and what does it have to with the mysterious drug company Verico in New Jersey? Judy Kozinski and Robert Cavanaugh must work together to solve an intricate maze of deceit, murder and mysteries before the life of a whole town is put at risk.
Judy Kozinski needs answers. Her husband, a prominent genetic scientist, has been found murdered and no one can find a motive. *** In Las Vegas, a sho...
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92,67 zł |
Harm
ISBN: 9780983686637 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. EVER WONDER WHY THE FORTY-YEAR OLD WAR ON CANCER HAS GONE NOWHERE? Research scientist and single mother Cory Montclair never gave it a thought until her infant daughter recovers from cancer after taking a drug that is banned in the United States. When Cory tries to describe the benefit of the cheap harmless drug in a medical journal, she incurs the wrath of the most profitable and powerful industry in America. A large pharmaceutical company, backed with the authority of the FDA and AMA, will stop at nothing to silence her. Threatened with losing everything-her reputation, career, ancestral...
EVER WONDER WHY THE FORTY-YEAR OLD WAR ON CANCER HAS GONE NOWHERE? Research scientist and single mother Cory Montclair never gave it a thought until h...
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97,74 zł |
Olduvai Countdown
ISBN: 9781491854204 / Angielski / Twarda / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Olduvai Countdown, a compelling medical thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, and Michael Palmer, tells the story of Jack Cann, a world-renown virologist, tired of navigating the arcane politics of a highbrow Ivy League school, who returns to his Midwestern Kansas roots to lead the quiet life of a university professor. His Utopian plan is interrupted when an African village in the Olduvai region of Africa is consumed by death in a few hours. This isolated incident in a remote region devolves into worldwide chaos as death sweeps across Africa like a Serengeti grass fire....
Olduvai Countdown, a compelling medical thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, and Michael Palmer, tells the story of Jack Cann, a...
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186,63 zł |
Olduvai Countdown
ISBN: 9781491854211 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Olduvai Countdown, a compelling medical thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, and Michael Palmer, tells the story of Jack Cann, a world-renown virologist, tired of navigating the arcane politics of a highbrow Ivy League school, who returns to his Midwestern Kansas roots to lead the quiet life of a university professor. His Utopian plan is interrupted when an African village in the Olduvai region of Africa is consumed by death in a few hours. This isolated incident in a remote region devolves into worldwide chaos as death sweeps across Africa like a Serengeti grass fire....
Olduvai Countdown, a compelling medical thriller in the tradition of Michael Crichton, Robin Cook, and Michael Palmer, tells the story of Jack Cann, a...
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139,74 zł |
Cell
ISBN: 9780425273852 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A doctor's life gets turned upside by a dangerous new technology in this thought-provoking medical thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook. George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is...
A doctor's life gets turned upside by a dangerous new technology in this thought-provoking medical thriller from #1 New York Times bestselli...
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43,53 zł |
Hemorrhage
ISBN: 9780865349858 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Dr. Lawrence A. Cooper (Coop) has three patients inexplicably bleed to death on the operating table, the vultures begin to circle. First, he is accused of operating while under the influence of alcohol and his surgical privileges are stripped. Next, the deceased patients' families each slap him with separate malpractice lawsuits and not too surprisingly, the State of Utah revokes his license to practice medicine. Then, just to make sure his bones are picked clean, the county attorney charges him with negligent homicide, a criminal offense punishable by up to five years in prison. Just as...
When Dr. Lawrence A. Cooper (Coop) has three patients inexplicably bleed to death on the operating table, the vultures begin to circle. First, he is a...
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108,72 zł |
Farewell To Dreams: a Novel of Fatal Insomnia
ISBN: 9781939038111 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For readers of Tess Gerritsen, Douglas Preston, F Paul Wilson: Fatal Insomnia, Book One In the chaos of the ER, functioning without sleep is a prized skill. But even Dr. Angela Rossi will admit that five months is far too long, especially when accompanied by other worrisome symptoms: night sweats, tremors, muscle spasms, fevers. Then a dead nun speaks to her while Angela is holding the nun's heart in her hand. "Find the girl," the nun commands-although no one else in the trauma room can hear, the words drilling... For readers of Tess Gerritsen, Douglas Preston, F Paul Wilson: Fatal Insomnia, Book One In... |
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136,61 zł |
Blood Brain Barrier
ISBN: 9780985114428 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eric Egan, MD, becomes suspicious when several infants present with spinal meningitis. What he unearths is a monstrous plot by a colleague who has decided to play God.
Eric Egan, MD, becomes suspicious when several infants present with spinal meningitis. What he unearths is a monstrous plot by a colleague who has dec...
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87,15 zł |
Siete Pacientes
ISBN: 9781940745619 / Hiszpański / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Los expedientes medicos solo reflejan una fraccion sesgada de lo que realmente ocurre puertas adentro de los hospitales. Dentro de este archivo se encuentran las historias completas de lo que ocurrio con siete pacientes tratados en el Hospital Universitario y el rol que tuvieron en transformar un inocente estudiante medico no solo en doctor sino en algo mucho mas mortal. Antes de ingresar a la Facultad de Medicina, Raj Mok no sabia que las colostomias podian ser prostituidas, que hubiese canceres infestados con larvas y que DIEZ fuese el numero mas letal... Por medio de sus interacciones con...
Los expedientes medicos solo reflejan una fraccion sesgada de lo que realmente ocurre puertas adentro de los hospitales. Dentro de este archivo se enc...
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55,04 zł |
Fatal Impact
ISBN: 9780340919149 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. THE SEVENTH CRIME NOVEL IN THE BRILLIANT ANYA CRICHTON SERIES - A SERIOUS RIVAL TO PATRICIA CORNWELL'S DR KAY SCARPETTA.
When forensic pathologist Dr Anya Crichton finds a dead child covered in blood and stuffed into a toy box, her thoughts immediately turn to murder. Then the post mortem reveals that the girl died from a deadly bacterial infection brought on by food poisoning. But does that mean Anya can rule out foul play? Anya was only meant to be in Tasmania for a conference and to visit her mother, but when more people fall sick, including her father's cousin, Anya becomes... THE SEVENTH CRIME NOVEL IN THE BRILLIANT ANYA CRICHTON SERIES - A SERIOUS RIVAL TO PATRICIA CORNWELL'S DR KAY SCARPETTA.
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50,99 zł |
Toxic Blood
ISBN: 9781495483721 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. High-tech medical dialysis equipment can keep a person alive even after they have reached complete kidney failure; but the process of hemodialysis is complicated. The machines must be set up properly, tested and monitored during the hours-long treatments by skilled staff or the treatment itself can become deadly. Patricia Barker left Massachusetts and the job she loved working in obstetrics to escape the man who was stalking her. She accepts a nursing job in the Bentonville Dialysis Center but no idea how much skill it will require, let alone how dangerous it could be for the patients if she...
High-tech medical dialysis equipment can keep a person alive even after they have reached complete kidney failure; but the process of hemodialysis is ...
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57,19 zł |
Brink of Disaster
ISBN: 9781497502017 / Angielski / Miękka / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Good doctors resist "jumping to conclusions," but Dr. Rob Garcia does so often, and with panache. He commands a team of Army surgeons that parachutes into disaster sites, wrenching the critically injured from death's grasp.
Yet his wealth of medical experience cannot prepare Rob for what he next encounters - a sophisticated terrorist cell of medical professionals hell-bent on destroying the nation's capital. He stumbles upon their plan to surgically implant time bombs in unwitting patients, intended to detonate simultaneously within seven Washington landmarks. As the deadline nears,... Good doctors resist "jumping to conclusions," but Dr. Rob Garcia does so often, and with panache. He commands a team of Army surgeons that parachutes ...
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59,43 zł |
The New Reality (Alex Pella Series, #1)
ISBN: 9781611530742 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author Stephen Martino delivers an action-packed medical thriller in a heart-stopping race to save humanity.
After a deadly retrovirus is inadvertently released upon the planet in 2080, no country is financially prepared to deal with such a disaster. Only the acclaimed neuroscientist, Alex Pella, and NIH expert, Marissa Ambrosia, have the audacity to lead a search for the cure while simultaneously fending off a foreign elite military unit sent to stop them. Guided by an ancient code concealed within the Hebrew text of the Old Testament, the scientists must traverse ancient lands and attempt... Author Stephen Martino delivers an action-packed medical thriller in a heart-stopping race to save humanity.
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78,04 zł |
Blood Lies
ISBN: 9780765380203 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ben Dafoe, a young emergency-room doctor and part-time crime-scene consultant for the Seattle Police Department, is haunted by addiction. Two years earlier, a cocaine and crystal-meth habit claimed the life of his identical twin, Aaron. Now Ben walks onto the scene of a savage stabbing to find that the victim is his former fiancee, Emily Kenmore-another loved one who fell prey to drugs. Part of the carnage in Emily's bedroom is a single streak of blood caked on the wall. When the DNA from that sample matches Ben's, he becomes the prime suspect. Convinced his identical twin is... Ben Dafoe, a young emergency-room doctor and part-time crime-scene consultant for the Seattle Police Department, is haunted by addiction. Two years... |
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78,39 zł |
Incision
ISBN: 9781499632071 / Angielski / Miękka / 798 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Boston, 1987 Behind the gleaming facade of preeminent education and medical training, the birthplace of numerous groundbreaking advances in the field of Women's Health, the struggle for equal opportunity and respect is alive and well. The women surgeons who are determined to break through the gender barriers in their chosen field find they must meet - and exceed - every standard set for their male counterparts, and then some... When a prominent surgeon is found dead, the question immediately becomes: was it an accident or medical malpractice? ...or could it have been murder?
Boston, 1987 Behind the gleaming facade of preeminent education and medical training, the birthplace of numerous groundbreaking advances in the field ...
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118,97 zł |
Mercy Killer
ISBN: 9781941291023 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A serial killer roams the halls of Sentinel Health Systems whos dedicated to setting people free--with or without their permission.
Dr. Lori Westlake wishes she could help her terminally-ill patients end their suffering on their own terms. So when shes invited to join the Circle of Peace, a clandestine euthanasia society, she sees it as a possible avenue for her convictions. But Loris sister, who also works at SHS, couldnt disagree more. She believes people are dying who shouldnt be dying, and shes determined to find out why. When Lori is accused of murder, their only hope of... A serial killer roams the halls of Sentinel Health Systems whos dedicated to setting people free--with or without their permission. |
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97,74 zł |
Megan's Cure: An Enzo Lee Mystery Thriller
ISBN: 9780988644823 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Another engaging thriller in the Enzo Lee series." - Kirkus Reviews When 10-year-old Megan Kim disappears from her school on the Alabama Gulf Coast, it has all the signs of a child abduction. However, a more complicated story soon emerges. The action follows Megan and a brilliant but troubled scientist across the South on a desperate mission to evade their pursuers. Big Pharma is intent on burying Megan and the secret she carries. Meanwhile, reporter Enzo Lee is trying to save his gravely ill grandmother and embarks on a search for a cure. That quest leads him to the fugitive pair. Together,...
"Another engaging thriller in the Enzo Lee series." - Kirkus Reviews When 10-year-old Megan Kim disappears from her school on the Alabama Gulf Coast, ...
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59,25 zł |