Harmful Intent
Kindle Edition
Penguin Publishing Group · Ebook · February 1, 1991
A physician turned fugitive must save himself and stop a lethal drug-tampering plot in Robin Cook's most disturbing techno-chiller yet.
We earn from qualifying purchases.
- Who it’s for
- A medical thriller where courtroom consequences give way to a dangerous search for the truth.
- Themes
- Medical malpractice, Drug tampering, Wrongful accusation
- Pacing
- Fast
Nearest books
Matched by what the books are about, then ordered by what their readers also loved. Most of these share its genres: Medical Thrillers and Medical Fiction.
Vital SignsRobin Cook71% match
Acceptable RiskRobin Cook69% match
MindbendRobin Cook73% match
FeverRobin Cook69% match
ComaRobin Cook67% match
Night ShiftRobin Cook74% match
The SocietyMichael Palmer70% match
CriticalRobin Cook68% match
For younger readers: We'll Never Be Apart, Love Is the Drug, Payback
Start with three books, and this one can be the first.
Members get a new edition every morning: a route out from their books to essays, research and talks, with the reason for each.
Start with this bookAbout this book
A physician turned fugitive must save himself and stop a lethal drug-tampering plot in Robin Cook's most disturbing techno-chiller yet. Anesthesiologist Dr. Jeffrey Rhodes's nightmare begins with nerve-shattering swiftness, but it will haunt him always: he administers routine anesthesia during a normal birth. Suddenly the young, healthy mother goes into inexplicable seizures and dies; her infant survives but is severely disabled and brain damaged.
Continue reading
But the living nightmare is only beginning: sued first for malpractice, then brought up on criminal charges, Jeffrey is convicted of malpractice—to the tune of $11 million—then of harmful intent and reckless disregard for human life...second-degree murder carrying a mandatory prison term. A ruined man, Jeffrey must pull himself from the depths of despair to try to salvage the wreckage of his life. A subtle clue puts him and Nurse Kelly Everson on the trail of a crazed killer. With Kelly's aid, Jeffrey remains in hiding in order to find the truth and gain the evidence he needs to prevent more "malpractice" deaths and to clear his name. But that truth is even more shocking than Jeffrey imagined. For there is a third dimension to the whole affair that neither he nor Kelly could have anticipated...
Medicine Under Suspicion
A medical thriller where courtroom consequences give way to a dangerous search for the truth.
Come here for
- Medical peril tangled with malpractice charges and a murder conviction
- A fugitive doctor following clues alongside a nurse
Expect
- Legal jeopardy shifting into a hunt to stop more deaths
- A high-stakes mystery with a shocking truth at its center
Where it sits
| Medical Thrillers | 98% |
|---|---|
| Tech Thrillers | 36% |
| Medical Fiction | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Amateur Sleuths
- Legal Thrillers
- Medical Thrillers
- Authors
- Robin Cook
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- February 1, 1991
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Medical malpractice · Drug tampering · Wrongful accusation
- Reading lane
- Amateur Sleuths