Título: Silent Treatment: A Novel
Autor: Michael Palmer
Sinopse: In his five bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world--a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin. Now, in his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how the power to heal can become a license to kill....
With his wife, Evie, scheduled for surgery the next day, Dr. Harry Corbett goes to the hospital for what he hopes will be a quiet evening of reconciliation. In recent weeks Evie, never quick to share her feelings, has been more closed and distant than ever.
But when Harry reaches Evie's room, it is too late for reconciliation. Shockingly, without warning, Evie is dead. The police suspect homicide. And their only suspect is Dr. Harry Corbett.
Harry is not prepared for the stunning revelations that follow: His bright, beautiful, highly ambitious wife was leading a double life; she may have had
dangerous secrets. But what secret could have been explosive enough to die for?
Then the killer strikes again, boldly, tauntingly murdering one of Harry's favorite patients in such a way that only Harry knows the death was not natural. This time Harry is certain: The killer, medically sophisticated, coolly arrogant, moving undetected through a busy urban hospital, could only be a doctor. And he wonders--how many more will die?
Desperately Harry probes deeper, following the only clue Evie left. What he finds is a sinister pattern that threatens patients in every hospital in the city. Harry is engaged in a life-and-death battle of wits with a chillingly efficient monster. And until the doctor is unmasked, no patient is safe from his lethal silent treatment.
Michael Palmer has done it again, delivering a no-holds-barred novel of medical intrigue-- a gripping thriller that features the most terrifying physician
since Hannibal Lecter. Silent Treatment will keep your pulse racing from beginning to end
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Silent Treatment: A Novel”, de Michael Palmer, publicado pela editora Bantam Books, em 1996 e com 480 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Bantam Books
Páginas: 480
Ano: 1996-03-01
Edição: First Edition
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0553572210
ISBN13: 9780553572216
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Bantam Books costumam transportar o leitor para narrativas densas e envolventes, onde o suspense, o mistério e o drama humano se entrelaçam em tramas que exploram conflitos pessoais e sociais. A experiência de leitura varia entre histórias de investigação policial, espionagem, dramas familiares e aventuras em cenários urbanos ou históricos, com personagens que enfrentam dilemas morais e ameaças concretas. O tom oscila entre o tenso e o introspectivo, com ritmo que pode ser acelerado em cenas de ação ou mais reflexivo em momentos de revelação. O catálogo revela um equilíbrio entre histórias mais narrativas e outras com abordagem mais psicológica e investigativa, mostrando certa diversidade dentro de um universo predominantemente adulto e adulto jovem.
