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Silent Treatment

by Michael Palmer
George Guidall
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In his previous best-seller, Natural Causes, Dr. Michael Palmer drew on decades of emergency-room experience to create a terrifyingly realistic world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin. In Silent Treatment, he crosses this line with a heart-pounding thriller guaranteed to satisfy fans of medical suspense. When his wife mysteriously dies the night before she is scheduled for surgery, Dr. Harry Corbett realizes a killer is moving through the wards of Good Samaritan Hospital-a killer so sophisticated and silent that he can only be a doctor.

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  • Release date

    May 1, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781464037450
      • File size: 429833 KB
      • Duration: 14:55:29

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Palmer's medical-insurance mystery story will increase the anxiety level of any listener who's on the way to the doctor. A bad guy murders anyone the high-rolling insurance companies decide is too expensive to cure or maintain. There's plenty of action, and the medical details are authentic. George Guidall serves up a malicious killer, a lovable doctor-hero, a beautiful bald-headed lady, thugs, call girls, detectives and jealous lovers. His style is subtle; the slight pause here, the hard edge there. The listener almost forgets the voice, which is clear but not aggressive. Guidall is especially able to convey character through dialogue. L.R.S. Winner of AUDIOFILE Earphones Award (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      February 27, 1995
      A timely topic (health care) and a scary idea (a health care insurance cartel killing clients for ``cost containment'') give Palmer's new medical thriller (after Natural Causes) a big boost-but poor writing, including a series of unlikely plot twists, ultimately sinks it. Dr. Harry Corbett, two weeks short of 50, is trying to save his marriage to beautiful, ambitious journalist Evie, 11 years his junior, who's facing surgery for an aneurysm in Harry's hospital. When Evie dies in hospital, and her lover, about whom Harry knew nothing, accuses Harry of killing her, a boorish NYPD detective vows to nail the distraught doctor. Further murders follow, committed by one Anton Percheck, a physician who used to torture for drug dealers and repressive governments and now works for the cartel. Meanwhile, Harry is beaten, abducted, drugged, chased by villains and the law and nearly killed more than once. As in his earlier novels, Palmer's medical expertise (he's a practicing physician), as well as his ability to write a suspenseful scene, rival those of Robin Cook; unfortunately, so do his pedestrian prose, shallow characterizations, reliance on forced coincidences and maddeningly dim hero (grilled by the vicious cop, Harry doesn't call his lawyer because ``he had done nothing wrong''). Major ad/promo; audio rights to BDD.

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 29, 1996
      Palmer's latest medical thriller-about a health insurance cartel that is killing off clients-spent five weeks as a PW bestseller.

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