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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle Brown & Company
ISBN-100316334464
ISBN-139780316334464
eBay Product ID (ePID)177983997
Product Key Features
Book TitleComa
Number of Pages384 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2014
TopicHorror, Thrillers / Medical, Science Fiction / General, Mystery & Detective / General
GenreFiction
AuthorRobin Cook
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight12.2 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition18
Dewey Decimal823/.9/1
SynopsisThe 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?