Synopses & Reviews
With every one of his ten novels a New York Times bestseller, emergency medicine physician Michael Palmer is recognized by critics and fans worldwide as a master of medical suspense. Now Palmer delivers a relentless thriller that slices to our deepest fears with surgical precision—a tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is plausible. Welcome to The Society.
At the headquarters of Boston’s Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. She’s not
the first to die—nor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and the victims have one thing in common: they are all high-profile executives in the managed care industry.Dr. Will Grant is an overworked and highly dedicated surgeon. He has experienced firsthand the outrages of a system that cares more about the bottom line than about the life-and-death issues of patients. As a member of the Hippocrates Society, Will seeks to reclaim the profession of medicine from the hundreds of companies profiting wildly by controlling the decisions that affect the delivery of care. But the doctor’s determination has attracted a dangerous zealot who will stop at nothing to make Will his ally. Soon Will is both a suspect and a victim, a pawn in a deadly endgame. Then, in one horrible moment, Will’s professional and personal worlds are destroyed and his very life placed in peril.
Rookie detective Patty Moriarity is in danger of being removed from her first big case—the managed care killings. To save her career, she has no choice but to risk trusting Will, knowing he may well be the killer she is hunting. Together they have little to go on except the knowledge that the assassin is vengeful, cunning, ruthless—and may not be working alone. That—and a cryptic message that grows longer with each murder: a message Grant and Moriarity must decipher if they don’t want to be the next victims.
Synopsis
Will Grant has dedicated his life to helping others--he's a workaholic surgeon at a busy trauma center, and he volunteers at the local soup kitchen. He's also a member of the Hippocrates Society, a hundred-plus band of Massachusetts doctors who believe certain insurance corporations are ripping the heart out of medicine with immoral cost-cutting policies. But as the Society wages a war of words, a remorseless killer is waging a war of vengeance through the serial murders of managed-care executives. Rookie Detective Patty Moriarity, close to being pulled off her first big case, is determined to tie Will to the killings. And when the assassin begins using him as an instrument of terror in an operation he may not survive, proving his own innocence could be murder.
Synopsis
Rookie Detective Patty Moriarity, close to being pulled off her first big case, is determined to tie anti-establishment surgeon Will Grant to the serial murders of managed-care executives. When the assassin begins using Will as an instrument of terror, proving his own innocence could be murder.
About the Author
Michael Palmer, M.D., spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and is now an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s physician health program.