The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author & master of the medical thriller Robin Cook takes readers back to where the genre began & the questions posed in Coma what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical &incubators& against their will? Lynn Peirce a fourth-year medical student at Mason-Dixon University thinks she has her life figured out But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend Carl enters the hospital for routine surgery she doesn&t know it&s the last time she will see him whole again Devastated by Carl&s death Lynn searches for answers Convinced there&s more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal Lynn uses all her resources at Mason-Dixon
- including her initially reluctant lab partner Michael
- to hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice What she uncovers however is far more disturbing Hospitals associated with Middleton Healthcare including the one attached to Mason-Dixon have unnervingly high rates of unexplained complications in the wake of routine surgery When Lynn & Michael begin to receive death threats they know they&re into something bigger than either of them anticipated They soon enter a desperate race against time for answers before shadowy forces behind Middleton Healthcare can put a stop to their efforts once & for all