Mutant

Zusatztext “A thrilling and compelling read.” –TESS GERRITSEN Author of The Surgeon “ MUTANT IS [CLEMENT’S] BEST BOOK SO FAR. . . . The premise here! that we could be killed by what we eat! is scary enough to carry the book by itself.” –The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Informationen zum Autor Peter Clement, M.D. , is a physician who headed an emergency room at a major metropolitan hospital and now maintains a private practice. He is also the author of Lethal Practice , Death Rounds , and The Procedure . His newest novel is Critical Condition . He is married to a physician and has two sons. Klappentext Former ER doctor Peter Clement blends electrifying human drama with the suspense of top-notch medical thrillers. With Mutant he has written one of his most gripping! utterly chilling novels to date. On an isolated stretch of highway in Oahu! a woman cradles her dying son in her arms. In the days that follow! an autopsy draws a shocking conclusion: the boy! his lungs filled with blood! died of a disease previously found only in birds. On the other side of the globe! Dr. Richard Steele! a burned-out ER doctor is being recruited into a movement to examine the hazards of genetically modified foods! a job that takes him to an explosive conference in Hawaii. Spearheaded by a charismatic female doctor! the anti-bioengineering movement is gathering steam. While a powerful company is using genetic breakthroughs to create disease-resistant super crops! activists warn that new DNA strains will wreak havoc on the environment. But no one suspects that the controversy is masking a far more frightening human threat-one that could lead to the deadliest weapon of mass destruction ever unleashed upon the world. . . . Chapter 1 Thirteen Months Later New York City Hospital Dr. Richard Steele found today’s shift his worst ever in ER. Of course, Mondays were always bad compared to the rest of his week. More people arrived in emergency with heart attacks and every other kind of medical crisis on that day—a fact he knew well as a twenty-year veteran and longtime chief of the department. But this Monday’s marathon seemed particularly hard, and all afternoon he felt a step behind. One of the nurses slammed down the phone and sprinted toward the resuscitation room. “There’s a precode coming—a fifteen-year-old asthmatic!” she yelled over her shoulder the way a quarterback calls a play. Everyone within earshot leaped up to help her get ready, instantly understanding what would be demanded of them. Past an overflow of stretcher patients crammed into the corridor, they scrambled after her, briskly navigating the jumble of IV poles, bags, and lines that hung like webs from the ceiling. As he watched them go, Steele knew that not only the protocols for running a respiratory arrest would be flashing automatically into their minds. The patient’s age would pump their adrenaline levels higher than usual. The prospect of losing someone so young always exacerbated the fear of failure in ER. It would be his job to make sure that the extra anxiety didn’t affect his team’s performance. At one time he accepted this added bur- den as simply another part of his role. These days he found himself dreading it. While his abilities as a resuscitator were as sharp as ever, his people skills had become nonexistent. “Put the MI who’s still in resus near the head of the line!” he called after them, making himself heard above the noise of a department already loud from overcrowding. He grabbed the nearest receiver and punched in the numbers for the cardiac care unit. In no time two nurses raced back from the resuscitation room pushing a gurney that bore a frightened-looking elderly woman attached to an armada of portable monitors, intravenous tubes, and a tank of oxygen. By then he’d at least managed to b...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Clement
• Editore: Fawcett Book Group
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2002
• EAN: 9780345443380
• ISBN: 978-0-345-44338-0
• Pagine: 384
• Dimensioni: 108 mm x 174 mm x 26 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Gialli > Polizieschi, thriller, spionaggio