Life Support - Softcover

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Die chinesischstämmige Tess Gerritsen arbeitete erfolgreich als Ärztin, bevor sie sich ihrer Jugendleidenschaft besann und anfing, Romane zu schreiben. Kaum jemand vereint seit vielen Jahren so gekonnt wie sie erzählerische Raffinesse mit medizinischer Detailgenauigkeit und psychologischer Glaubwürdigkeit der Figuren. Tess Gerritsen lebt mit ihrer Familie in Maine.

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Control was the word Dr Toby Harper lived by. She strove to keep her life in order, her ER in order.

But no one could have been prepared for the man she admits one quiet night to the Springer Hospital. Delirious and in a critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain, he barely responds to treatment. And then he disappears without trace.

The subsequent search leads Toby to a second patient with the same infection. And it reveals an unsettling twist the infection can only be spread through direct tissue exchange.

Soon Toby's on a trail that winds from a pregnant sixteen-year-old prostitute to an unexpected tragedy in her own home.

Only then does she discover the unthinkable: a terrifying and deadly epidemic is about to be unleashed

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR

This is crime writing at its unputdownable, nerve-tingling best Harlan Coben

Richly drawn hospital scenes chilling science and breathless ER-style pacing make Life Support a quick, delightfully scary read People

[Gerritsen] has an imagination so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe seem like goody-two-shoes Chicago Tribune