The Patient, Michael Palmer's ninth medical suspense novel, is a
fast-paced beat-the-clock thriller.
Someone is killing off the world's most gifted neuro surgeons and Alex
Bishop, a renegade CIA agent, thinks he knows who it is. Bishop is out
to settle his score with Claude Malloche, an international assassin
responsible for the death of Bishop's brother. When he learns that
Malloche is afflicted with an inoperable brain tumor, Bishop
understands why the murdered neuro surgeons died, and where Malloche
will strike next. Meanwhile, Jessie Copeland, an MIT-trained
mechanical engineer and neurosurgeon, is working to perfect a robotic
device that will revolutionize brain surgery.
One of the patients awaiting surgery at Boston's Eastern Massachusetts
Medical Center is Malloche--but which one? No one has ever been able
to identify the assassin, and Jessie is hardly well known enough to
attract his notice. But ARTIE, the robotic device, is--and Malloche
will stop at nothing to ensure that it's used to save his own life. He
threatens to release a deadly nerve toxin on thousands of innocent
people, and Jessie is forced to save him at the cost of her own
safety.
Notable for his swift pacing, well-drawn minor as well as major
characters, and medical expertise, Palmer delivers the goods with this
heart-stopping read.
