β Scribed by Michael Palmer
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
With every one of his ten novels a New York Times bestseller, emergency
medicine physician Michael Palmer is recognized by critics and fans
worldwide as a master of medical suspense. Now Palmer delivers a
relentless thriller that slices to our deepest fears with surgical
precision--a tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is
plausible. Welcome to The Society.
At the headquarters of Boston's Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. She's not
the
first to die--nor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and
the victims have one thing in common: they are all high-profile
executives in the managed care industry. Dr. Will Grant is an overworked
and highly dedicated surgeon. He has experienced firsthand the outrages
of a system that cares more about the bottom line than about the
life-and-death issues of patients. As a member of the Hippocrates
Society, Will seeks to reclaim the profession of medicine from the
hundreds of companies profiting wildly by controlling the decisions that
affect the delivery of care. But the doctor's determination has
attracted a dangerous zealot who will stop at nothing to make Will his
ally. Soon Will is both a suspect and a victim, a pawn in a deadly
endgame. Then, in one horrible moment, Will's professional and personal
worlds are destroyed and his very life placed in peril.
Rookie
detective Patty Moriarity is in danger of being removed from her first
big case--the managed care killings. To save her career, she has no
choice but to risk trusting Will, knowing he may well be the killer she
is hunting. Together they have little to go on except the knowledge that
the assassin isvengeful, cunning, ruthless--and may not be working
alone. That--and a cryptic message that grows longer with each murder: a
message Grant and Moriarity must decipher if they don't want to be the
next victims.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Sam Dubarry is a cynic. Growing up in the foster system in NYC does that to you. And falling in love is by far the stupidest thing you could do in her opinion. But there's one thing she craves more than anything-family. The illegitimate American daughter of an English Lord, Sam is desperate to make
Sam Dubarry is a cynic. Growing up in the foster system in NYC does that to you. And falling in love is by far the stupidest thing you could do in her opinion. But there's one thing she craves more than anything-family. The illegitimate American daughter of an English Lord, Sam is desperate to make
Samantha Evans knows sheβd never get an invite to rush the Society. But after years of relentless bullying at the hands of the Societyβs queen bee, Jessica, sheβs ready to take down Jessica and the Society one peg at a time. All itβll take is a bit of computer hacking, a few fake invitations, some e