Heat Shock - Hardcover

Greer, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892967536 ISBN 13: 9780892967537

Verlag: Mysterious Press, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

The author of the ac-claimed CJFloyd series returns to the world he knows best-high stakes medical research-in this riveting new thriller ripped from today's headlines. Dr. Carmen Nguyen, a Colorado emergency room doctor, finds herself unwittingly drawn into the problems of a patient. Luke Redstoke, a former Uranium miner, is dying of cancer but is more worried about his prized gamecocks. Someone has been sneaking onto his property and trying to steal his precious birds. Now he has no way to protect them. Carmen agrees to check on the birds if only to humor Redstone-but she soon realizes the birds are genuinely valuable. A former medical researcher, Carmen learns that the birds raised on uranium rich soil hold secrets about strength, power, and chromosome changes. Determined to honor her promise to the dying man, she enlists a new friend and former patient to help protect the birds. Very little can stop the motorcycle-riding, Vietnam-born survivor, but a small army of ruthless killers hired by a businessman who can make a fortune from the birds' secrets are determined to try.

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Robert Greer lives in Denver, Colorado.

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Most medical thrillers deliver their chills in a cold laboratory atmosphere. Greer, a practicing surgical pathologist and research scientist, yanks the chain of the genre by setting most of his shocks in the scruffy outreaches of the Colorado High Plains. Readers are pulled into the back roads of illegal cockfighting before they realize they've embarked on an adventure yarn heavily laced with science fiction; the result is satisfyingly unnerving. Greer excels at both plot and characterization. His trio of amateur sleuths here fairly leap off the page in their well-limned humanity. They include a female emergency room doctor, who has faced a lifetime of ostracism because of being "my den," half-black, half-Vietnamese; an old man dying of cancer, thanks to years in the mines; and a whitewater river rafter obsessed with the death of a 10-year-old boy. The old man's superstar game cocks--fighting cocks that shatter the competition--are sought after by agents for a research science lab, who use stealth, wealth, and murder to get what they want. The scientists are convinced that the game cocks have a radical protective trait that could lead to a race of "invincibles." The ER doctor, against her rules of conduct, gets pulled into the old man's life and promises to look after his birds. This triggers a chain of assaults and murders that result in the three broken people investigating the lab themselves. Reading Greer is like being hooked up to an I.V. that steadily drips suspense. Connie Fletcher
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Greer, author of the popular CJ Floyd mystery series (Limited Time; The Devil's Backbone), ushers in two compelling new protagonists in this fast-paced tale of medical research gone awry. Dr. Carmen Nguyen is a half-black, half-Vietnamese emergency room physician at a hospital in the Colorado desert; her patient-turned-lover, Walter Rios, is a rugged river-rafter recovering from a near-fatal fishing accident. Together, they come to the assistance of Luke Redstone, an ornery cockfighter dying of a rare form of leukemia caused by mining yellow-cake uranium in his younger days. While Redstone receives treatment in the hospital, someone steals his prized fighting cocks, known for their unusual vigor and bloodthirstiness. Nguyen and Rios soon discover that an unscrupulous Denver biotech executive, Jack Kimbrough, has taken an abnormal interest in Redstone's birds and possesses inside knowledge of how they dominated the fighting circuit. (A secondary character in the CJ Floyd series, the Denver bail bondsman's assistant, Flora Jean, is on the case, too.) With Nguyen's medical expertise and Rio's investigative wile, the pair find that Kimbrough may have come up with a way to replicate the physical invincibility of Redstone's cocks in human beings. It's a discovery that could be worth billions-and could lead to murder. Greer effectively evokes the Western setting with his clean, uncluttered prose and introduces a winning crime-fighting duo.
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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Mysterious Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0892967536
• ISBN 13: 9780892967537
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
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