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Dr Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labour has suddenly become a matter of life and death. For she's certain there must be some unknown factor linking these women, and as she gets closer to the truth, it becomes clear that someone will do anything - even murder - to keep a devastating secret.
This new text introduces the six great arguments for the existence of God. It requires no specialist knowledge of philosophy and includes a wealth of primary sources from classic and contemporary texts.
Leading a double life, his beautiful wife had uncovered a deadly secret, and when the killer strikes again, Harry is once more the sole suspect.Medically sophisticated, coolly arrogant, moving undetected through a busy urban hospital, it is clear to Harry that the killer, can only be a doctor.
For almost forty years, Roy Strong has been in the public spotlight - as the director of the National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, as a broadcaster, consultant and lecturer, and as the author of many books on art, history, garden design and food. This collection of pieces showcases the range of his interests and passions.
Finding the link between these events could prove Fatal-Five years ago, internist and emergency specialist Matt Rutledge returned to his West Virginia home to marry his high-school sweetheart and open a practice.
"Captures the intense atmosphere of the White House...I thoroughly enjoyed it." -President Bill Clinton on Michael Palmer's The First Patient Growing up in the White House was never supposed to be easy. So when sixteen-year-old Cam, also a champion chess player, experiences extreme moodiness and an uncharacteristic violent outburst, doctors are quick to dismiss his troubles as adolescent angst. Still, Secret Service agent Karen Ray, whose job is to guard the president's family with her life, is convinced that Cam's condition is serious-enough so that she summons her physician ex-husband for a second opinion. At first, the president's team doesn't want to listen to Dr. Lee Blackwood. But when Cam gets sicker, Lee must make a diagnosis from a puzzling array of symptoms. His only clue is a young patient named Susie, a young musical prodigy who seems to be suffering from similar symptoms as Cam. Hospitalized after an attempt on her life by a determined killer, Susie faces increased jeopardy as Cam's case takes on a terrifying new dimension. Is someone trying to send a message-and kill the president's son? As Lee and Karen race for a cure to help Cam, they begin to uncover betrayals that breach the highest levels of national security. And until they can find the truth, no one is safe. . ."Seamlessly blends medicine, politics, and life in the White House into a riveting potboiler of a story...Grabs you by the throat and won't let go until the last page is turned." -James Rollins, New York Times bestselling author of The Seventh Plague "Intriguing."-Booklist
Adapted from the author's textbook edition 'The Atheist's Creed', this is a comprehensive guide to the philosophical arguments for atheism for the general reader.
A comprehensive and accessible guide to the key writings in the philosophy of religion. An invaluable resource for schools and colleges, and an ideal introduction for the general reader. Volumes One and Two are also available as a single set.
Thea's investigation hits a dead end until one day, her father, the founder of a cutting edge medical centre, opens his eyes and slowly begins to blink a terrifying message. Confronted with a conspiracy that infects the whole of the medical community, Thea soon finds that she is fighting for more than her father's life.
Reluctantly, Gabe agrees - but soon he discovers that critical details concerning the President's health have been kept from him... Suspecting that the President's worsening condition may not be due to natural causes, Gabe sets out to uncover who is behind his mysterious illness.
Michael Palmer's new book-a collection in two parts, "The Laughter of the Sphinx" and "Still (a cantata-or nada-for Sister Satan)"-contains 52 poems.The title poem begins "The laughter of the Sphinx / caused my eyes to bleed" and haunts us with the ruin we are making of our world, even as Palmer revels in its incredible beauty. Such central tensions in The Laughter of the Sphinx-between beauty and loss, love and death, motion and rest, knowledge and ignorance-glow in Palmer's lyrical play of light and entirely hypnotize the reader. The stakes, as always with Palmer, are very high, essentially life and death: "Please favor us with a reply / regarding our one-time offer / which will soon expire."
Tough, ambitious and hardworking, Natalie Reyes finds herself suspended - unjustly - from Harvard Medical School, and it feels like her world has ended.
"Media Moguls" details the emergence of a few very powerful individuals in control of large sections of world communications industries during an era of media de-regulation. The book considers the transatlantic trade of Hollywood television, the international news agencies and the influence of media lobbying over EC policy-makers.
When eight-year-old Toby, among other patients, begins to suffer horrifying recurring memories of earlier operations, neurosurgeon Zack Iverson races to discover how and why this occurs - in order to prevent someone eventually dying of terror.
'Has everything - a terrifying plot.breakneck pace.vividly drawn characters' John SaulDr. Kate Bennett is a brilliant young pathologist with a loving husband and a bright future. Now her best friend has fallen ill and is exhibiting the same symptoms as the previous victims - Kate must expose the sinister plot before it is too late.
Young, talented, and ambitious, Dr Eric Najarian has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules. But Eric has already seen too much. And if Eric refuses to become their colleague - he will be their next victim...
A sports injury ended Brian Holbrook's professional football dreams and left him addicted to prescription painkillers. This cost him his marriage and his licence to practice medicine. Then the prestigious Boston Heart Institute offers him an opportunity to participate in a trial for a wonder drug.
Alongside detective Patty Moriarity, Will sets out to track down the killer.They have little to go on except for a cryptic message that grows longer with each murder: a message Grant and Moriarity must decipher if they are to save themselves becoming the next victims...
Dr Abby Dolan was on the fast track at a major San Francisco hospital when she made a critical choice: to follow her fiance, Josh Wyler, to the picturesque California town of Patience, where he has a new job with the manufacturing giant Colstar.
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