a fast-moving medical thriller that will keep you guessing…

The Patient

Another riveting thriller from Arrow's master of suspense

This exciting, graphic and pacy thriller from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer is jam-packed with twists and turns and nail-biting tension. Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will not be disappointed. 
 
'Gripping and fresh...wrenchingly scary' -- Publishers Weekly 
'Palmer brings his fascinating ER procedural knowledge to a fast-paced narrative.' -- San Francisco Chronicle 
'Manages to scare the socks off the reader' -- Toronto Globe and Mail 
'Brilliant book.' -- ***** Reader review 
'Terrifying plot - keeps you on the edge of your seat.' -- ***** Reader review 
'Awesome' -- ***** Reader review 
'A real page-turner' -- ***** Reader review 
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A RUTHLESS KILLER. A DEADLY DILEMMA. 
 
Gifted and highly respected, Dr Jessie Copeland is about to revolutionise the field of neurosurgery with her ground-breaking bio-engineering invention. 
 
Claude Malloche is suffering from a brain tumour, beyond the treatment of existing medical practice, and only Dr Copeland and her new technique can save him. 
 
But Malloche is the mysterious and ruthless killer holding the Boston hospital where Jessie works, and the city, to ransom. If Jessie fails to cure him, hundreds of innocent people will die... 
 
But if she succeeds, will Malloche only disappear once more to continue his deadly work?

Michael Palmer spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of emergency medicine and is currently an associate director of addiction medicine in Massachusetts. He can be contacted at www.michalepalmerbooks.com

This exciting, graphic and pacy thriller from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer is jam-packed with twists and turns and nail-biting tension. Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will not be disappointed. 
 
'Gripping and fresh...wrenchingly scary' -- Publishers Weekly 
'Palmer brings his fascinating ER procedural knowledge to a fast-paced narrative.' -- San Francisco Chronicle 
'Manages to scare the socks off the reader' -- Toronto Globe and Mail 
'Brilliant book.' -- ***** Reader review 
'Terrifying plot - keeps you on the edge of your seat.' -- ***** Reader review 
'Awesome' -- ***** Reader review 
'A real page-turner' -- ***** Reader review 
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A RUTHLESS KILLER. A DEADLY DILEMMA. 
 
Gifted and highly respected, Dr Jessie Copeland is about to revolutionise the field of neurosurgery with her ground-breaking bio-engineering invention. 
 
 Claude Malloche is suffering from a brain tumour, beyond the treatment of existing medical practice, and only Dr Copeland and her new technique can save him. 
 
 But Malloche is the mysterious and ruthless killer holding the Boston hospital where Jessie works, and the city, to ransom. If Jessie fails to cure him, hundreds of innocent people will die... 
 
 But if she succeeds, will Malloche only disappear once more to continue his deadly work?

The Second Opinion

Palmer, a medical-thriller writer who has been producing A-list-quality novels for years, turns in another excellent performance... As usual, the novel is fluidly written-as a stylist, Palmer is head and shoulders above his more famous competitor, Robin Cook-and very suspenseful. Another winner from a consistently fine writer.

Michael Palmer, M.D., trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and was an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. He died in October 2013.

Left for dead by a hit-and-run driver, Dr Petros Sperelakis' chances of survival are slim. But Petros' daughter Thea refuses to accept that her father might not survive his devastating injuries, even when her brothers insist that treatment be withheld. 
 
Having left the complex, money-driven dynamics of traditional medicine years ago, Thea's father's grievous injuries draw her unwillingly back into a world she despises. As she uncovers the secrets surrounding her father's collision, it becomes clear that it was no accident. But without proof, she can dig no deeper. 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. She is also fighting for her own...

The First Patient

'An exciting thriller that is full of surprises and captures the intense atmosphere of the White House. I thoroughly enjoyed it.' - Bill Clinton

Endlessly entertaining ... The roller-coaster ride of a plot builds to an undeniably shocking conclusion

Ingenious ... suspenseful and cleverly plotted

A tale set at the very edge of our knowledge ... I loved it

An exciting thriller that is full of surprises and captures the intense atmosphere of the White House. I thoroughly enjoyed it

Two helicopters disrupt the peace of Dr Gabe Singleton's remote Wyoming ranch. From one of them strides the President of the United States with startling news - and a stunning request which will turn Gabe's quiet life upside down. 
 
President Stoddard's personal physician has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared, and he needs Gabe to take the man's place. 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. But the more questions he asks, the more Gabe seems to be putting himself in danger...

Natural Causes

Michael Palmer's novels have been translated into thirty-five languages and have been adapted for film and television. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospital, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and was involved in the treatment of alcoholism and chemical dependence. He died in October 2013.

Dr Sarah Baldwin races to a Boston hospital with a young woman whose normal labour has suddenly become a matter of life and death. As she struggles to save both mother and baby, she doesn't know that two other women have already died under horrifying identical circumstances. And so begins Sarah's own nightmare, as she learns that the prenatal herbal vitamins she prescribed are the only things these three women have in common. Soon Sarah is fighting to save her career, her reputation - her life. 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.

The Fifth Vial

The latest unputdownable thriller from Arrow's master of suspense

An ingenious medical thriller, suspenseful and cleverly plotted

A tale set at the very edge of our medical knowledge, and of a thrilling heroine who confronts a theft that haunts me still. I loved it!

Tough, ambitious and hardworking, Natalie Reyes finds herself suspended - unjustly - from Harvard Medical School, and it feels like her world has ended. But when her mentor sends her to present a medical paper at a conference in Rio de Janiero, it almost does... Kidnapped, and shot while trying to escape, Natalie is left for dead in an alley. Against all the odds she survives, but her dreams are shattered. 
 
On the other side of the world, medical genius Joe Anson is working on a serum which could save millions of lives - if only he can fend off a fatal illness long enough to complete his research. But Anson is running out of time, and those watching from the shadows will stop at nothing to ensure he fails. 
 
Meanwhile, in Chicago, disillusioned private detective Ben Callahan is struggling to identify a dead man; struggling to find an explanation for the mysterious marks on his body. But the answer could lead Ben into a conspiracy far wider than this case... 
 
Three people with no apparent connection learn the meaning of trust and betrayal as they are drawn into the web of secrecy which surrounds the fifth vial...

The Society

The latest relentless thriller from Arrow's master of medical suspense

'Gripping suspense, likeable heroes and hateful villains keep the pulse pounding'

'Guaranteed to terrify anyone... Dynamite plot... fast-paced and engrossing'

Michael spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of emergency medicine and was an associate director of addiction medicine in Massachusetts. He died in October 2013.

The wealthy and powerful CEO of a large health care company is found brutally murdered. 
She is not the first to die - nor will she be 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 healthcare industry. 
 
As a member of the Hippocrates Society, Dr Will Grant is fighting to reclaim the medical profession from the many companies profiting wildly from controlling the delivery of care. But the doctor's determination has attracted a dangerous zealot, and soon Will finds himself both suspect and victim, a pawn in a deadly endgame. 
 
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...

Extreme Measures

Another riveting thriller from Arrow's master of suspense

Michael Palmer spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of emergency medicine and was an associate director of addiction medicine in Massachusetts. He died in October 2013. 
 
Author Comments 
'At Wesleyan University in Connecticut where I went to college, I took a seminar on Edgar Allan Poe. Poe wrote so effectively about people being buried alive that for years wills demanded that a bell-and-chain set-up be rigged in the deceased's casket just in case they awoke underground. What if there was a drug that could make a person look dead when they weren't?'

Young, talented, and ambitious, Dr Eric Najarian has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. 
 
What Eric doesn't know is that he's being watched. And judged. 
 
An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules. 
 
But Eric has already seen too much. A missing body. An unspeakable mutilation. A brutal abduction. It's only the beginning of a terrifyingly evil plot, a sinister plan the group will stop at nothing to hide. And if Eric refuses to become their colleague - he will be their next victim...

Fatal

"Gripping suspense, likeable heroes and hateful villains keep the pulse pounding"                                              Publishers Weekly

Michael Palmer's books have been translated into over 35 languages.  Michael spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of emergency medicine, and was an associate director of addiction medicine in Massachusetts.  He died in October 2013.

In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering nothing more malevolent than flu like symptoms begins haemorrhaging from every part of her body.  In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured by an unknown disease, rapidly descends into lethal paranoia.  In West Virginia, a miner suddenly goes berserk, causing a cave-in that kills two of his co-workers.  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.  He also had a score to settle.  His father died whilst working for the local mining company, and Matt swore to expose their health and safety violations.  When his beloved wife succumbed to an unusual cancer, his campaign became even more bitterly personal.  Now he has identified bizarre new incidents of illness - caused, he is certain, by the mine's careless disposal of toxic chemicals.  All he needs is proof.

a heart-stoppingly tense and compelling medical thriller that will get right under your skin

Side Effects

This compelling thriller from the author of Silent Treatment is available for the first time in the UK.

If you like Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook, you will love this engrossing and spine-tingling thriller from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. It will get your blood racing and your heart pumping... 
 
'Dynamite plot... past-paced and engrossing.' -- Washington Post 
'Gripping and fresh... wrenchingly scary' -- Publishers Weekly 
'Manages to scare the socks off the reader' -- Toronto Globe and Mail 
'Truly well written piece with suspense from start to finish' -- ***** Reader review 
'Compelling page turner' -- ***** Reader review 
'Couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
'Gripping, suspenseful and hard to put down' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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MYSTERIOUS DEATHS AND A HORRIFYING SECRET THEY'LL STOP AT NOTHING TO PROTECT 
 
Dr. Kate Bennett is a brilliant young pathologist with a loving husband and a bright future. But her world is about to be turned upside down. 
 
At the Omnicenter - a high-tech health facility for women - a strange and puzzling illness has killed two patients. The illness has no definite cause, let alone a cure. 
 
When Kate is called in to investigate the mysterious deaths, she stumbles upon a terrible medical discovery which has its roots in one of the greatest evils in the history of humankind. Now her best friend has fallen ill and is presenting the same symptoms as the previous victims - and Kate must expose the sinister plot before it is too late. 
 
However, with powerful enemies and few friends, Dr. Bennett's disturbing discovery comes to threaten not only her career, but also her marriage, her sanity and her life.

Michael Palmer, M. D., trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spending twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine. He died in October 2013.

an intensely gripping and spine-tingling medical thriller that you won’t be able to put down.  A real edge-of-your-seat ride!

Flashback

A medical thriller in the bestselling tradition of Robin Cook

From the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer comes this unsettling, frightening and mesmerising medical thriller that ingeniously combines an accomplished plot with authentic scientific detail. A page turner from beginning to end that fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love. 
 
READERS ARE LOVING FLASHBACK! 
'A keep you up all night type of book' -- ***** Reader review 
'A good read from beginning to end' -- ***** Reader review 
'Nail-biting, even scary at times... carefully researched and utterly credible. A very good read.' -- ***** Reader review 
'I lost a lot of sleep reading this one - because I couldn't put it down!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Wonderfully entertaining' -- ***** Reader review 
'Enjoyed from cover to cover'-- ***** Reader review 
 
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ONE ROUTINE OPERATION. ONE HORRIFYING SECRET. 
 
Toby Nelms is an ordinary 8-year-old boy who needs a routine operation. Everything seems to go well - the surgery is a success and Toby is sent home. 
 
Months later, terror begins to take over Toby's life - he keeps on bursting into tortured screaming. He has begun to relive every moment of his operation - including the immense pain. 
 
Neurosurgeon Zack Iverson must discover why the young boy is re-experiencing every detail of the operation. 
Unsettlingly, Toby is not the only patient who is suffering this strange and horrific effect after surgery. 
 
Iverson needs to get to the bottom of what is causing this, and find out the truth quickly, before another patient is wheeled into the Operating Room, to experience every slice of the scalpel's merciless blade for the rest of their life...

Michael Palmer's novels have been translated into thirty-five languages and have been adapted for film and television. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and was involved in the treatment of alcoholism and chemical dependence. He died in October 2013.

From the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer comes this unsettling, frightening and mesmerising medical thriller that ingeniously combines an accomplished plot with authentic scientific detail. A page turner from beginning to end that fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love. 
 
READERS ARE LOVING FLASHBACK! 
'A keep you up all night type of book' -- ***** Reader review 
'A good read from beginning to end' -- ***** Reader review 
'Nail-biting, even scary at times... carefully researched and utterly credible. A very good read.' -- ***** Reader review 
'I lost a lot of sleep reading this one - because I couldn't put it down!' -- ***** Reader review 
'Wonderfully entertaining' -- ***** Reader review 
'Enjoyed from cover to cover'-- ***** Reader review 
 
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ONE ROUTINE OPERATION. ONE HORRIFYING SECRET. 
 
Toby Nelms is an ordinary 8-year-old boy who needs a routine operation. Everything seems to go well - the surgery is a success and Toby is sent home. 
 
Months later, terror begins to take over Toby's life - he keeps on bursting into tortured screaming. He has begun to relive every moment of his operation - including the immense pain. 
 
Neurosurgeon Zack Iverson must discover why the young boy is re-experiencing every detail of the operation. 
Unsettlingly, Toby is not the only patient who is suffering this strange and horrific effect after surgery. 
 
Iverson needs to get to the bottom of what is causing this, and find out the truth quickly, before another patient is wheeled into the Operating Room, to experience every slice of the scalpel's merciless blade for the rest of their life...

a heart-poundingly tense and dramatic medical thriller that will get your pulse racing…

Miracle Cure

Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love this captivating and riveting thriller from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. Fascinating medical knowledge combined with a fast-paced narrative - a real winner! 
 
'A highly entertaining tale of greed and medicine run amok' -- Chicago Tribune 
'Packs plenty of heart-stopping action.' -- Associated Press 
'With the twists along the way this book made fascinating, awesome and sometimes frightening reading.' -- ***** Reader review 
'Don't start this book unless you have plenty of time because you won't want to put it down once you've started it.' -- ***** Reader review 
'A page turner'-- ***** Reader review 
'Clever and suspenseful!' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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KNOWING TOO MUCH COULD BE THE QUICKEST WAY TO THE MORGUE... 
 
When skilled cardiologist Brian Holbrook suffered an agonizing sports injury he was left with an addiction to prescription painkillers that eventually cost him his marriage and his license to practice medicine. But now, at thirty-eight, he has cleaned up his act, swallowed his pride, and is ready to start over. 
 
When the prestigious Boston Heart Institute offers him the opportunity to participate in trials of a new drug that could revolutionize medicine, he's thrilled. Vasclear may have the power to reverse arteriosclerosis, a heart disease and globally the number one killer. The initial results are so dazzling Brian pushes to get his own father, who has a dangerous heart condition, into the scheme. 
 
But soon Brian is uneasy. The mysterious disappearance of a colleague and deaths of patients on the scheme compels him to ask questions. However, with billions of dollars at stake, probing questions could cost him his career - and his father's life. 
 
For as Brian is beginning to suspect, knowing too much at the Boston Heart Institute is a matter of life and death...

an incredibly suspenseful and gripping medical thriller you won’t be able to forget…

Critical Judgement

Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love this tense and unputdownable medical page-turner from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. Incredible medical knowledge coupled with a mesmerising turn of page - this is a phenomenal ride! 
 
'Gripping and fresh... wrenchingly scary' -- Publishers Weekly 
'Palmer brings his fascinating ER procedural knowledge to a fast-paced narrative.' -- San Francisco Chronicle 
'Manages to scare the socks off the reader' -- Toronto Globe and Mail 
'I seriously couldn't put it down. I highly recommend it' -- ***** Reader review 
'Absolutely stupendous' -- ***** Reader review 
'Totally complex novel that keeps your interest from beginning to end and then wishing it would not end' -- ***** Reader review 
'Another Palmer book finished in less than 36 hours because I couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
'This book hooks you in at the start and thrills right to the end' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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ASKING QUESTIONS COULD END HER CAREER AND HER LIFE... 
 
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. 
 
Working in a small-town emergency room, knowing her every move sparks gossip, Abby nonetheless begins to feel at home - until undiagnosable patients start to show up. 
 
Despite her considerable skills, she can't crack these baffling, seemingly random cases. 
 
When Josh too begins to suffer disturbing symptoms, followed by manic, even violent behaviour, she wonders: could Colstar somehow be poisoning the town? 
 
Warned by a colleague that her predecessor in the ER died in a dubious accident after making similar allegations, Abby refuses to back off. She begins to question everyone and everything around her in the now hostile town of patience. 
 
And her most dangerous enemy is far closer than she thinks.

Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love this tense and unputdownable medical page-turner from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. Incredible medical knowledge coupled with a mesmerising turn of page - this is a phenomenal ride! 
 
'Gripping and fresh... wrenchingly scary' -- Publishers Weekly 
'Palmer brings his fascinating ER procedural knowledge to a fast-paced narrative.' -- San Francisco Chronicle 
'Manages to scare the socks off the reader' -- Toronto Globe and Mail 
'I seriously couldn't put it down. I highly recommend it' -- ***** Reader review 
'Absolutely stupendous' -- ***** Reader review 
'Totally complex novel that keeps your interest from beginning to end and then wishing it would not end' -- ***** Reader review 
'Another Palmer book finished in less than 36 hours because I couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review 
'This book hooks you in at the start and thrills right to the end' -- ***** Reader review 
 
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ASKING QUESTIONS COULD END HER CAREER AND HER LIFE... 
 
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. 
 
Working in a small-town emergency room, knowing her every move sparks gossip, Abby nonetheless begins to feel at home - until undiagnosable patients start to show up. 
 
Despite her considerable skills, she can't crack these baffling, seemingly random cases. 
 
When Josh too begins to suffer disturbing symptoms, followed by manic, even violent behaviour, she wonders: could Colstar somehow be poisoning the town? 
 
Warned by a colleague that her predecessor in the ER died in a dubious accident after making similar allegations, Abby refuses to back off. She begins to question everyone and everything around her in the now hostile town of patience. 
 
And her most dangerous enemy is far closer than she thinks.

Michael Palmer

a spine-chilling and compelling medical thriller you won’t be able to put down…

Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook, will love this pacy, gripping and blood-chilling thriller from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. Guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat... 
 
'Guaranteed to terrify anyone who has a reason to step inside the doors of a hospital. Dynamite plot... past-paced and engrossing.' -- Washington Post 
'Palmer owes this reviewer about three hours of sleep spent reading this can't-put-it-downer. You are cautioned... don't start this one at 10 at night.' -- The Washington Times 
'Difficult to put down' -- ***** Reader review 
'Twists and turns galore' -- ***** Reader review 
'First class' -- ***** Reader review 
'This is the first book I've read by this author and I loved every minute ... I stayed up until 1:00 in the morning reading and stopped only because I had to go to work the next day.' -- ***** Reader review 
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HE OPERATES WITH LETHAL PRECISION... 
 
Dr Harry Corbett is on his way to visit his estranged wife, Evie, who is scheduled for surgery the next day, for what he hopes will be a quiet evening of reconciliation. But, without warning, he arrives to find her dead in her hospital bed. 
 
The police suspect murder, and Corbett is their only suspect... 
 
 Harry is unprepared for the stunning revelations that follow. 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. 
 
Can he stop the killer in his tracks before any more patients receive his lethal silent treatment?

Michael Palmer

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