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HarperTorch
December 2004
Featuring: Dr. Carroll Monks
384 pages
ISBN: 0060529172
Paperback (reprint)
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Thriller Psychological
Late one hot summer night, a beautiful young actress named
Eden Hale - only hours removed from breast-augmentation
surgery, and writhing in pain - stumbles to the telephone
and dials 911. Within minutes, an ambulance rushes her to
San Francisco's Mercy Hospital. But by the time she
arrives, she is dying, fast, of a mysterious,
unrecognizable condition.
Dr. Carroll Monks, the ER physician on duty, races to sort
through her baffling symptoms in the few minutes he has
left to save her. Monks has a sudden insight and, against
the advice of his peers, risks a radical treatment, which
will prove to be either a brilliant manuever or a
potentially deadly mistake. It fails. Eden Hale, vibrantly
healthy and barely twenty-five years old, is dead. The fallout is immediate and intense. The plastic surgeon
who operated on Eden - Dr. D. Welles D'Anton, whose
reputation as a surgical guarantor of perfection and
agelessness has conferred on him a guru-like status -
blames Monks for her death. Criticism from Monks's
hospital colleagues quickly follows and the threat of a
lawsuit is not far behind. Monks's career is in jeopardy,
but his own guilt and uncertainty are what haunt him worst
of all. Convinced there's a hidden cause to Eden's death, Monks
starts to delve into her past. Despite roadblocks that
spring up in his path, he soon learns that the former prom
queen was not the all-American girl she seemed to be: she
was caught up in the world of pornography, and was even,
possibly, having an ilicit affair with D'Anton. Then Monks
uncovers a secret that is far more frightening: other
young women in D'Anton's care have wound up missing, dead,
or horribly disfigured. In his search for the truth,Monks is drawn into a culture
of unimaginable wealth and vanity - only to discover that
he is being used as a pawn in a decadent game of glamour
and cruelty, one that places him in the crosshairs of a
deadly psychopath.
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