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Delacorte
February 2006
Featuring: Nathaniel McCormick
400 pages
ISBN: 0385338538
Hardcover
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Fiction | Thriller Psychological
Straight out of todayβs hospitals and labsβand tomorrowβs headlinesβcomes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against timeβ¦as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before it is too lateβ¦. In Baltimoreβs St. Raphaelβs Hospital, three newly admitted patients are among societyβs most helpless citizens: female residents of Baltimoreβs group homes for the mentally impaired, their bodies racked by a virus the likes of which no one at St. Raphaelβs 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 bafflingβfrom 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 βvectorββthe one person who had sexual contact with the first victims. And when that suspect is found murdered, Nate fears that the disease heβs 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 allβand a past Nate himself has been trying to escape.
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