MICHAEL PALMER

Once given the green light to use Rovers newly acquired V8 engine, the Morgan Motor Company lost no time installing it under the bonnet of their traditional sports car. The Morgan Plus 8 became their biggest-selling model, spanning thirty-six years from its 1968 launch to discontinuation in 2004. After an eight-year respite it was reintroduced to the firms model line -up from 2012 until 2018, underpinned by a new state of the art bonded aluminium chassis and powered by a potent BMW V8. Morgan Plus 8 - Fifty Years an Icon gives a detailed account of the history, design and manufacturing process of the Morgan Plus 8. With over 300 colour photographs it covers both the traditional and Aero chassis cars; the history of both the Rover V8 and the BMW V8 engines; includes full specifications for each model; recalls the Plus 8s motor sport heritage; features personal first-hand accounts from key personalities and finally, covers the history of the mark and looks at is future.

From the blockbuster, eleven-time New York Times bestselling author comes a novel of medical suspense that begins with these chilling questions: Who ends up with the blood samples you routinely give for tests? What else are they being used for? Why dont you know?.. Take a Deep Breath... In Boston, a disgraced medical student is sent to deliver a research paper that could save her career. . . . Four thousand miles away, in a jungle hospital in Cameroon, a brilliant, reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millions of lives, and bring others inestimable wealth. . . . In Chicago, a disillusioned private detective, on the way to his third career, is hired to determine the identify of a John Doe, killed on a Florida highway, with mysterious marks on his body. Three seemingly disconnected lives, surging unrelentingly toward one another. Three lives becoming irrevocably intertwined. Three lives in mounting peril, moving ever closer to the ultimate confrontation against a deadly secret society with godlike aspirations and roots in antiquity. Medical student. Scientist. Private eye. Three people who will learn the deeper meanings of brilliance and madness, truth and deception, trust and betrayal. Three lives linked forever by a single vial of blood - the fifth vial.

Struck down by a hit-and-run driver, one of the world's most respected doctors lies comatose in the ICU unit of Boston's Beaumont Clinic. No one thinks he will survive. Two of his children believe treatment should be stopped. But his daughter Thea refuses to give up hope—and begins to suspect a cover-up. As a brilliant physician who left the hospital to work with the poor, Thea knows all too well the hidden agendas and personal conflicts that lurk beneath the surface of an elite medical center. When a late-night hospital intruder is identified as a professional killer, Thea is convinced her father's accident was no accident—and someone plans to finish the job… Who would want to kill a man who saves lives—and why? The answers, Thea fears, are locked deep inside the mind of the only living witness—her father—a man who cannot move or speak. Until the flutter of a single eyelid provides him the means to communicate…and offers Thea a terrifying glimpse into an unfathomable conspiracy.

RESISTANT BACK COVER ? They kill without conscience or remorse. They are the most ruthless enemy we have ever faced. And they are one millionth our size Prepare to be shocked--and mesmerized--by the latest novel of thrilling medical suspense from "New York Times "bestselling author Michael Palmer. Dr. Lou Welcome never could have imagined what a sports injury would mean for his best friend, Cap Duncan. Surgeons manage to save Cap's shattered leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating Cap alive from the inside out. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, a teenaged girl is fighting for her life against the same microbe. The germ is resistant to any known antibiotic--and the government scientist tasked with finding a cure has been kidnapped. And time has already run out "Of all [Palmer's] novels, this one has the most ambitious plot and one of the best action scenes to ever appear in a medical thriller."--Associated Press Turning to the Centers for Disease Control for help, Lou uncovers a link to the Society of One Hundred Neighbors, a terrorist organization whose members are holding our own health institutions hostage. Like the microbe itself, One Hundred Neighbors will stop at nothing to further its agenda. Now, from the hospital corridors where anything you touch can mean your end to the top corridors of domestic power in this war against humanity, Lou must put an end to a terrifying epidemic--if it doesn't kill him first. "When it comes to inventive plots for medical thrillers, nobody does it better than Michael Palmer."--"Huffington Post"" "

¿Es lícito que mueran algunas personas para salvar la vida de otras, consideradas más importantes?Tras ser violada y tiroteada en Brasil, la joven médica Natalie Reyes pierde un pulmón. Al otro lado del oceano, en Camerun, un reconocido investigador recibe un trasplante de pulmon de procedencia sospechosa. En Chicago, un detective investiga el cadaver de un joven que ha sido atropellado justo despues de donar medula osea. Tres personas sin conexion aparente que caen en las manos de una poderosa red de trafico de organos. Accion, suspense, intriga, peligro... Un thriller medico que atrapa desde la primera pagina y que conducira al lector desde Estados Unidos hasta Brasil, India o Camerun,entre otros exoticos destinos.

Left for dead by a hit-and-run driver, Dr Petros Sperelakis' chances of survival are slim. But Petros' daughter Thea refuses to accept that her father might not survive his devastating injuries. As she uncovers the secrets surrounding her father's collision, it becomes clear that it was no accident. But without proof, she can dig no deeper.

With every one of his ten novels a New York Times bestseller, emergency medicine physician Michael Palmer is recognized by critics and fans worldwide as a master of medical suspense. Now Palmer delivers a relentless thriller that slices to our deepest fears with surgical precisiona tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is plausible. Welcome to The Society. At the headquarters of Bostons Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. Shes not the first to dienor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and the victims have one thing in common: they are all high-profile executives in the managed care industry.Dr. Will Grant is an overworked and highly dedicated surgeon. He has experienced firsthand the outrages of a system that cares more about the bottom line than about the life-and-death issues of patients. As a member of the Hippocrates Society, Will seeks to reclaim the profession of medicine from the hundreds of companies profiting wildly by controlling the decisions that affect the delivery of care. But the doctors determination has attracted a dangerous zealot who will stop at nothing to make Will his ally. Soon Will is both a suspect and a victim, a pawn in a deadly endgame. Then, in one horrible moment, Wills professional and personal worlds are destroyed and his very life placed in peril. Rookie detective Patty Moriarity is in danger of being removed from her first big casethe managed care killings. To save her career, she has no choice but to risk trusting Will, knowing he may well be the killer she is hunting. Together they have little to go on except the knowledge that the assassin is vengeful, cunning, ruthlessand may not be working alone. Thatand a cryptic message that grows longer with each murder: a message Grant and Moriarity must decipher if they dont want to be the next victims.

Cinco años atrás, el médico Matt Rutledge decidió volver a su Virginia natal para casarse con su chica del instituto y abrir una consulta. Además, tenía otro objetivo: su padre murió mientras trabajaba para una empresa minera y Matt prometio sacar a la luz las condiciones laborales de la empresa en materia de salud y seguridad. Cuando a su querida Ginny le diagnostican un cancer poco habitual, el objetivo que se marco con la muerte de su padre se convierte en un reto personal. Matt ha identificado dos casos que señalan directamente hacia los deshechos toxicos de la mina. Ahora todo lo que necesita son pruebas, pero conseguirlas puede resultar peligroso.Michael Palmer ha creado una novela de ritmo trepidante con una trama medica donde nada es lo que aparenta y dar un paso en falso puede llegar a ser mortal.

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When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after John''s medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and deserved to be practicing medicine and fought hard for his license to be restored. After hearing the news of the violent outburst, Lou is in shock like everyone else, but mostly he''s incredulous. And when he begins to look into it further, the terrifying evidence he finds takes him down a path to an unspeakable conspiracy that seems to lead directly to the White House and those in the highest positions of power.

A story at Level 3 of a series of children''s illustrated ELT readers which are graded at five levels, according to length and complexity of plot. The stories cover a wide variety of genres, and have both British and foreign settings. Dramatized versions are available on cassette.

Un médico busca la verdad sobre un fármaco revolucionario y acaba desvelando una conspiración criminal. Sinopsis: Tras un tiempo de retiro forzado, el excelente cardiocirujano Brian Holbrook vuelve a ejercer la medicina en el Instituto Cardiologico de