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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 todayโs hospitals and labsโand tomorrowโs headlinesโcomes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against timeโฆas a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before it is too lateโฆ.
In Baltimoreโs St. Raphaelโs Hospital, three newly admitted patients are among societyโs most helpless citizens: female residents of Baltimoreโs group homes for the mentally impaired, their bodies racked by a virus the likes of which no one at St. Raphaelโs 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 bafflingโfrom 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 โvectorโโ the one person who had sexual contact with the first victims. And when that suspect is found murdered, Nate fears that the disease heโs 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 allโand 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 tensionโwith a brilliant โwhat-ifโ premise that is harrowingโฆheartbreakingโฆand impossible to wrench from your imagination.
From the Hardcover edition.
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