Coma
Little, Brown and Company · Paperback · September 23, 2014
The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.
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- Who it’s for
- A tense, immersive thriller with a cold clinical edge.
- Genres
- Medical Thrillers, Suspense, Medical Fiction
- Published
- Little, Brown and Company, September 23, 2014
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The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time. They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up. Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital.
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Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning. Then Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute, an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from the ceiling and kept alive until they can be harvested for healthy organs. Is she a participant in--or a victim of--a large-scale black market dealing in human organs?
Clinical Tension
A tense, immersive thriller with a cold clinical edge.
Come here for
- clinical unease
- sustained suspense
Expect
- medical and psychological strain
- crime-fiction momentum
Where it sits
| Medical Thrillers | 98% |
|---|---|
| Medical Fiction | 45% |
| Suspense | 35% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Horror
- Sci-Fi
- Suspense
- Medical Thrillers
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- Psychological Thrillers
- Authors
- Robin Cook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Published
- September 23, 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Horror