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January 2007
On Sale: December 26, 2006
544 pages
ISBN: 0440242282
EAN: 9780440242284
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
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Mystery | Thriller Psychological
Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s
headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from
medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut,
Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as
a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific
research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before
it is too late….
In Baltimore’s St. Raphael’s
Hospital, three newly admitted patients are among
society’s most helpless citizens: female residents of
Baltimore’s group homes for the mentally impaired, their
bodies racked by a virus the likes of which no one at St.
Raphael’s has ever seen.
Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is
one of the first on the scene. A young investigator from
the Centers for Disease Control, Nate is paid to explore
the bizarre, the exotic, and the baffling–from
superviruses to bioterrorism. But as soon as Nate begins
to investigate the lives and habits of the victims, he
knows something is terribly wrong. Using all his skills as
a medical detective, Nate soon zeroes in on the “vector”–
the one person who had sexual contact with the first
victims. And when that suspect is found murdered, Nate
fears that the disease he’s chasing may not be an act of
nature, but of man.
With his brash style angering
his superiors and fellow investigators alike, Nate turns
to an old colleague and former lover, Dr. Brooke Michaels,
for help. Together the two investigators follow a twisting
trail of clues to a discovery that is at once
groundbreaking and unspeakable. And as a circle of
treachery tightens around him, Nate is about to confront
the most chilling revelation of all–and a past Nate
himself has been trying to escape.
At once a taut
medical thriller and a riveting psychological portrait of
a young doctor on the edge, Isolation Ward is a tale of
runaway tension–with a brilliant “what-if” premise that is
harrowing…heartbreaking…and impossible to wrench from your
imagination.
From the Hardcover edition.
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