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Flawless

Flawless, September 2007
by Joshua Spanogle

Delacorte
Featuring: Nate McCormick
496 pages
ISBN: 0385338546
EAN: 9780385338547
Hardcover
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"A medical thriller that grabs you from page one and never lets go."

Fresh Fiction Review

Flawless
Joshua Spanogle

Reviewed by Stacey Herman
Posted August 15, 2007

Suspense | Thriller

Dr. Nate McCormick has reached a turning point in his life. He just left a plumb job with the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta to move to San Francisco to be with his girlfriend Brooke, director of the local health department. It looks like Dr. Nate's life is headed for marriage, mortgage and babies while he's dragging his cold, commitment-phobic feet. A call from a long-lost college chum named Paul Murphy sends Dr. Nate's life careening out of control and provides a compelling distraction from his current relationship turmoil. Apparently Paul has gotten in way over his head with his job, some questionable medical research, some vain women looking for the fountain of youth and what appears to be an Asian gang. A few dead bodies and mutilated faces later, Dr. Nate uses his free time and medical background to crack a very clever case. Author Joshua Spanogle is a sharp, witty, sarcastic writer who nails the details of plot and character. While this is a medical thriller, this reviewer was not overwhelmed with jargon. I was hooked from page one and enjoyed the suspenseful (and sometimes bloody) ride.

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SUMMARY

A former medical detective for the Centers for Disease Control, Dr. Nate McCormick had seen enough suffering to last a lifetime. Now he’s left the CDC, determined to begin a new life with his girlfriend in San Francisco…until the vicious murder of a biotech researcher—an old friend— hurtles him back into the medical world he’d left behind. While the police hunt for a killer, Nate starts sifting through evidence, determined to find what his friend did to provoke his brutal death. And the truth he ultimately discovers far exceeds the very worst he had imagined. As a circle of treachery tightens around Nate, and the woman he loves is thrust into the line of fire, patients surface with agonizing stories to tell. Nate is about to make the most startling discovery of all: a secret alliance between crime, science, and a billion-dollar industry determined to hide its victims at any price. For Nate, that price will be the one person most important to him—unless he can expose the flaw in a perfect conspiracy of medicine and murder. From shocking evidence revealed under a microscope to the shattering testimony of those betrayed by the ruthlessness of the medical industry, Flawless takes us on a terrifying, adrenaline-charged journey. Taut, thrilling, and relentless, it will leave you pondering its questions long after the last page is turned.


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