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This First Procedure: The patient is perfect. The theory is borne out, But something goes terribly wrong....
An accomplished attorney prepares to argue a life-and-death case before a Supreme Court nominee hostile to her cause... One of the country's leading surgeons, a pioneer in organ transplants, answers an emergency call to assist an operation in progress.... And in a morgue in Washington, D.C., a medical examiner and a police detective hover over a body found in a parking lot, a body that has been tampered with....
The Second Procedure: The police are adopted. A pattern is emerging. Time is running out....
Congressman Jack MacLeod is haunted by an episode that changed his life forever. Now Jack's life is about to explode again: the police arrive at his door. Evidence links him to the strange death of a man who last lived in a hallway house in his New York City district....
The Third Procedure: Complications terminate it. The risks are mounting. There's only one alternative....
Suddenly events spin out of control. Backroom deals made by the most powerful men in the country threaten to destroy Jack's political future. The secret from Jack's past falls into the hands of a mediasavvy opponent who can't wait to use it. And in the shadows, a plan, so outrageous and unthinkable of it will smash every assumption about the limits of the human body is nearing its showing conclusion.
The Fourth Procedure: When it happens, it will make medical history. And then no man will be safe....
Combining the best elements of explosive courtroom drama and groundbreaking medical technology with controversial social issues, The Fourth Procedure explores fundamental questions of life and death. It will take the listener beyond the boundaries of today's medicine to an all-too-plausible scenario of a frightening future. It is the most terrifying legal-medical thriller.
Amazon.com Review
The best elements of legal, medical and political thrillers are combined in this frightening novel. Congressman Jack MacLeod is haunted by an episode from the past. Now the police have found evidence linking him to the death of a man in his district. Jack's life spins out of control as strange medical data starts showing up in morgues and operating rooms.
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