Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Thrillers - Medical

The medical community calls the condition: Intermittent Explosive Disorder. People afflicted with it suffer from sudden, uncontrollable bursts of rage. The disorder plays a frequent role in the violent crime rampant in our society.

General Boston psychiatrist Gabriel Schaeffer believes it can be treated by normalizing a brain chemical imbalance. He and his colleague, neuroscientist, Angela Chen, have found just such a treatment, an oxytocin derivative called OX312. Their drug triggers feelings of love and compassion, suppressing violent urges.

To recently incarcerated Aaron Sharpton,...

Winner - Reader Views Reviewers Choice Award, Silver Medal Readers' Favorite Book Awards Meet 14-year-old Sean Malone. He has an IQ above 200, a full-ride scholarship to one of the country's top universities, and more than one million dollars from his winning streak on Jeopardy. However, Sean wishes he could just be normal. But his life is anything but normal. The US government manipulates him, using him as a codebreaker in pursuit of a drug lord and killing innocent people along the way. For reasons related to his personal security, Sean finds himself in Rome, building a new life under a...

At twenty-five, Simon Worth is a med school dropout, facing the grim reality of failure and massive student loans. Left with few options, he becomes an organ broker for a black-market organization, matching cash-strapped donors with recipients whose time on the transplant list is running out.
Tasked with finding a donor for Lenny Pellegrini, a severely depressed ex-NFL player who's been drinking himself to death, Simon's luck appears to change when he's contacted by Maria Campos, a young woman desperate for cash whose liver happens...

They know her as Kali. She is there to see them off into the afterlife with kindness, with...

It's a doctor's duty to "do no harm," but in a world where healthcare is completely in the hands of the government, meet physicians whose main mission is taking life instead of giving it. Lieutenant Jaye Osgood is lucky to have a good government job. It offers him and his family of five all the comforts of a good life: security, money and access. Until now he had never questioned the tasks he carried out for the Ministry of Health: missions that tore families apart-all in the name of the greater good. But then his own family unit is placed in jeopardy, and Osgood must risk it all to save...