Coma

Cook, Robin

ISBN 10: 0451159535 / ISBN 13: 9780451159533

Published by Signet Book USA, 1977

About this Item

Sprache: englisch, Ex-Bibliotheksausgabe, 308 Seiten.

Seller Inventory # S75068

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Coma
• Publisher: Signet Book USA
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451159535
• ISBN 13: 9780451159533
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Gut

About this title

Synopsis

The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.
They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up.
Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning.
Then Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute, an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from the ceiling and kept alive until they can be harvested for healthy organs. Is she a participant in--or a victim of--a large-scale black market dealing in human organs?

Review

"Gripping, terrifying, fast-paced suspense." ""The New York Times"""

"Strikes a deafening chord of terror." ""The Washington Post"""

"Gripping, terrifying, fast-paced suspense."--The New York Times

"Strikes a deafening chord of terror."--The Washington Post

"Unputdownable . . . A chilling, fast-moving suspense thriller"--The Boston Globe