Miracle Cure
a heart-poundingly tense and dramatic medical thriller that will get your pulse racing…
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4.8 • 4 Ratings
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- £4.99
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Publisher Description
Fans of Michael Connelly, Peter James and Robin Cook will love this captivating and riveting thriller from the pen of Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Palmer. Fascinating medical knowledge combined with a fast-paced narrative - a real winner!
'A highly entertaining tale of greed and medicine run amok' -- Chicago Tribune
'Packs plenty of heart-stopping action.' -- Associated Press
'With the twists along the way this book made fascinating, awesome and sometimes frightening reading.' -- ***** Reader review
'Don't start this book unless you have plenty of time because you won't want to put it down once you've started it.' -- ***** Reader review
'A page turner'-- ***** Reader review
'Clever and suspenseful!' -- ***** Reader review
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KNOWING TOO MUCH COULD BE THE QUICKEST WAY TO THE MORGUE...
When skilled cardiologist Brian Holbrook suffered an agonizing sports injury he was left with an addiction to prescription painkillers that eventually cost him his marriage and his license to practice medicine. But now, at thirty-eight, he has cleaned up his act, swallowed his pride, and is ready to start over.
When the prestigious Boston Heart Institute offers him the opportunity to participate in trials of a new drug that could revolutionize medicine, he's thrilled. Vasclear may have the power to reverse arteriosclerosis, a heart disease and globally the number one killer. The initial results are so dazzling Brian pushes to get his own father, who has a dangerous heart condition, into the scheme.
But soon Brian is uneasy. The mysterious disappearance of a colleague and deaths of patients on the scheme compels him to ask questions. However, with billions of dollars at stake, probing questions could cost him his career - and his father's life.
For as Brian is beginning to suspect, knowing too much at the Boston Heart Institute is a matter of life and death...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this flawed medical thriller about the marketing of a new drug by veteran writer Palmer (The Sisterhood), one plot twist too many turns a frightening vision of corporate greed into an excuse for prefab heroics. The drug is called Vasclear, a heart medication being developed at the Boston Heart Institute by Newbury Pharmaceuticals. The FDA is being pressured by a Massachusetts senator (who, it turns out, is secretly taking Vasclear himself) to approve the release of the drug. And Vasclear may be the magic wand that can save the life of Jack "Coach" Holbrook, whose health is declining after a quintuple bypass. Coach's son, Brian (an M.D. living at home and working as a rental-car gofer while he recovers from an addiction to painkillers), not only faces the ethical dilemma of stealing the drug if he can't place his father as a test patient but also finds evidence of potentially dangerous side effects--evidence that could derail the drug's release to the public. The characters are sitcom thin, the moral dilemma is barely raised before it's resolved and the inclusion of a Chechen Mafia subplot only serves to transport the story further into an unlikely realm, where otherwise efficient killers do nothing more dangerous than send the hero a threat in the mail and members of drug and alcohol recovery groups know more about pharmaceutical companies than the FDA. Palmer's thriller-friendly prose, pacing and plotting draw readers on here, but, like Vasclear, his novel should have spent more time in development before it hit the shelves.
