Ghost Image [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]

Gilder, Joshua

ISBN 10: 0743223128 / ISBN 13: 9780743223126

Published by Simon & Schuster, New York, 2002

About this Item

Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED and inscribed by author on title page. 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Edgewear and scratching to corner of dust jacket. One bumped corner. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 368 p. Audience: General/trade. By the author of 'Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries'. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a protective mylar sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ghost Image [SIGNED COPY, FIRST PRINTING]
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0743223128
• ISBN 13: 9780743223126
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

The last thing plastic surgery resident Jackson Maebry wants at the end of a long day in the operating room is a call to the ER. Once he gets there, what he finds is worse than his most hellish imaginings: a young woman, beaten and burned almost beyond recognition, a trauma case as terrible as any he has ever seen. What Jackson's colleagues don't know is that the victim, Allie, is actually his lover.

With Allie in a coma, Jackson keeps their relationship quiet and takes part in her reconstruction, a complicated and grueling set of procedures that only the most skilled specialists can perform. But as he and the other doctors struggle to put her back together, the fractures in Jackson's own life begin to break apart dramatically. When the San Francisco Police Department's investigation of the attack leads to his door, Jackson knows the truth can no longer be suppressed.

"Ghost Image" is an expertly plotted, chillingly vivid, and wholly absorbing mystery, signaling the debut of an unforgettable new voice in the genre. Taking readers inside the operating room and literally under the skin of its patients, it's a story that will appeal to those fascinated by medicine and forensics. It is also a story -- like all classic crime novels -- about guilt and innocence, good and evil. But, above all, it is a story of love -- the kind of love that might prove deadly, or that might just save your soul.

About the Authors

Joshua Gilder is a former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan (penning, among others, his famous "Go Ahead, Make My Day" speech) and served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights under President George H. W. Bush. Cofounder of a successful Washington, D.C., consulting firm, he has also published articles in The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, The New Criterion, The American Spectator, and Saturday Review. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Anne-Lee, and young son, Max. This is his first novel.

Joshua Gilder served as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights.