Bøger af Charles Graeber

A fascinating journey alongside a team of scientists on the verge of a breakthrough in cancer treatment. Dan Chen is part of a new generation of researchers attempting to crack the centuries-old mystery of how to harness the body's innate defence system to defeat cancer. Here, New York Times-bestselling author Charles Graeber follows Chen and his team to the forefront of medicine in the twenty-first century, shining a light on the rapid advances in cancer treatment over the past decade, and exploring in depth the idea that our own bodies may be the best weapon for recognising and killing cancer cells. This research heralds a new approach to cancer treatment that brings not just hope, but optimism, for a cure.

'...aside from the murders , Charles Cullen might have been a pretty good nurse...'The true story of the most prolific serial killer in US history, The Good Nurse is 'a stunning book... that should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood' New York Times

El enfermero que asesinó a más de 400 pacientes mientras fingía cuidarlosBESTSELLER DE THE NEW YORK TIMESLa carrera contrarreloj para atrapar al asesino serial más victimario de Estados Unidos.Nueva Jersey, 1987. Charles Cullen pasa sus días atendiendo a los pacientes del pabellón de quemados. Nadie hubiera creído que en esa sala el tímido enfermero concebiría un macabro método para terminar de una vez por todas con los dolores de los enfermos que contaban con sus cuidados para recuperarse.Rumores sobre inexplicables sobredosis de medicamentos cardiacos, silenciosas muertes ligadas entre sí; una sombra asesina recorre los pasillos de nueve hospitales al noreste de Estados Unidos sembrando casi 400 víctimas: son los componentes de este terrorífico thriller de la vida real.Escrito con una prosa envolvente, producto de años de investigación y entrevistas inéditas (incluido al propio Cullen), este libro es el retrato periodístico de un joven entregado a su compulsión por matar y cuya apacible conducta enmascaró sus sádicas acciones durante 16 años, hasta que los rumores de estos indescifrables asesinatos llegan a oídos del osado detective Baldwin, que no descansará hasta capturar al llamado 'Ángel de la muerte'.'Un libro impresionante... con reminiscencias de A Sangre Fría, de Truman Capote'. The New York Times

After his December 2003 arrest, registered nurse Charlie Cullen was quickly dubbed "e;The Angel of Death"e; by the media. But Cullen was no mercy killer, nor was he a simple monster. He was a favorite son, husband, beloved father, best friend, and celebrated caregiver. Implicated in the deaths of as many as 300 patients, he was also perhaps the most prolific serial killer in American history.Cullen's murderous career in the world's most trusted profession spanned sixteen years and nine hospitals across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. When, in March of 2006, Charles Cullen was marched from his final sentencing in an Allentown, Pennsylvania, courthouse into a waiting police van, it seemed certain that the chilling secrets of his life, career, and capture would disappear with him. Now, in a riveting piece of investigative journalism nearly ten years in the making, journalist Charles Graeber presents the whole story for the first time. Based on hundreds of pages of previously unseen police records, interviews, wire-tap recordings and videotapes, as well as exclusive jailhouse conversations with Cullen himself and the confidential informant who helped bring him down, THE GOOD NURSE weaves an urgent, terrifying tale of murder, friendship, and betrayal.Graeber's portrait of Cullen depicts a surprisingly intelligent and complicated young man whose promising career was overwhelmed by his compulsion to kill, and whose shy demeanor masked a twisted interior life hidden even to his family and friends. Were it not for the hardboiled, unrelenting work of two former Newark homicide detectives racing to put together the pieces of Cullen's professional past, and a fellow nurse willing to put everything at risk, including her job and the safety of her children, there's no telling how many more lives could have been lost.In the tradition of In Cold Blood, THE GOOD NURSE does more than chronicle Cullen's deadly career and the breathless efforts to stop him; it paints an incredibly vivid portrait of madness and offers a penetrating look inside America's medical system. Harrowing and irresistibly paced, this book will make you look at medicine, hospitals, and the people who work in them, in an entirely different way.