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Vitals

By: "Bear, Greg"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Ballantine Books:

Seller ID: 9780345423344

ISBN: 0345423348

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Blending fierce, fast plots with vivid characters and mind-bending ideas, Greg Bear has mastered a powerful alchemy of suspense, science, and action in his gripping thrillers. "Darwin's Radio" was hailed across the country as one of the best books of the year. His newest novel, "Vitals," ""begins with a harrowing descent to a netherworld at the very bottom of the sea-and then explodes to the surface in sheer terror.
Hal Cousins is one of a handful of scientists nearing the most sought after discovery in human history: the key to short-circuiting the aging process. Fueled by a wealth of res...
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The Plague Tales

By: "Benson, Ann"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Dell:

Seller ID: 9780440225102

ISBN: 0440225108

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: very good

"Part historical novel, part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense."--Entertainment Weekly

It is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium--the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague.

In the year 1348, a disgraced Spanish physician crosses a landscape of horrors to Avignon, France. There, he will be sent on ...
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The Procedure

By: "Clement, Peter"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Fawcett:

Seller ID: 9780449006221

ISBN: 0449006220

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

When Dr. Earl Garnet blames a powerful HMO for practicing no-fault murder in the death of an 18-month old baby, the HMO strikes back, igniting a boycott of St. Paul's Hospital. When a doctor is found murdered in the parking lot, Dr. Garnet initiates his own investigation, and wades into the murky waters of today's health-care industry.
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Harmful Intent

By: "Cook, Robin"

Price: $1.50

Seller ID: 9780425125465

ISBN: 0425125467

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

It should have been a routine childbirth. But somehow, the mother died in the delivery, the baby was born brain-damaged, and Jeffrey Rhodes, the anesthesiologist, is running for his life. Charged with malpractice, he is found guilty of harmful intent and reckless disregard for human life. To clear his name, Rhodes must follow a fugitive trail into the heart of medical nightmare. A trail that, for some, may end in suicide--and for others, in the most shocking conspiracy of our time...
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COMA

By: "Cook, Robin"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Signet:

Seller ID: 9780451207395

ISBN: 0451207394

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Considered one of the best books of the genre--and the book that launched Robin Cook 's career, earning him the reputation as the master of the medical thriller--Coma celebrates the 25th anniversary of its publication with this special mass market edition that includes a letter to readers from the the author. Reissue.
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Foreign Body

By: "Cook, Robin"

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Berkley:

Seller ID: 9780425228951

ISBN: 0425228959

Binding: Paperback

Condition: very good

In this chilling new novel from the one and only Robin Cook, New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton rush to India to help a UCLA student investigating medical tourism-and a sinister global conspiracy.
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The Miracle Strain: A Genetic Thriller

By: "Cordy, Michael"

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Avon:

Seller ID: 9780380730421

ISBN: 0380730421

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Famed geneticist Dr. Tom Carter's worst nightmares come true when his wife is slain by an assassin's bullet and his nine-year-old daughter is diagnosed with incurable brain cancer. Carter now needs a miracle to save his little girl; and one is waiting for him in a cave in the Middle East...and in the guarded DNA of the greatest healer in history.
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"Arctic Fire (Carrier, No. 9)"

By: "Douglass, Keith"

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Jove:

Seller ID: 9780515120844

ISBN: 0515120847

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

In the Artic Ocean, it's far from quiet on America's Western front--as Rear Admiral Tombstone Magruder and Carrier Battle Group Fourteen must repel Russian invaders from the Aleutian Islands.
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Texas-Sized Trouble (Cattlemen Crime Club)

By: "Han, Barb"

Price: $2.85

Publisher: Harlequin:

Seller ID: 9781335720795

ISBN: 1335720790

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

A Texas reunion turns old rivals into soon-to-be parents For as long as the O'Briens have run their ranch, their rivals have been the McCabes. So when Ryder O'Brien returns home to his brothers, only one thing can screw things up: getting involved with Faith McCabe. There's no temptation greater in Texas, and Ryder is about to pay the price for their forbidden fling. Because just as their passion ignites, Faith up and leaves...only to return five months later, seeking Ryder's help finding her missing brother--and pregnant with Ryder's baby. Ryder O'Brien may hav...
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Stigma

By: "Jr., Philip Hawley"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Harper:

Seller ID: 9780060887445

ISBN: 0060887443

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

In southern California, a young Mayan boy with a blue-crescent-moon tattoo on his chest dies mysteriously. In central America, a puzzling illness is spreading among tribal villages. And soon--very soon--Luke McKenna, a pediatric E.R. physician in Los Angeles, will discover the link between these events and demons from his dark past. The secrets that haunt Luke are about to pull him and the woman he loves into a terrifying house of mirrors. The realm of science and the realm of death are colliding with devastating force, and the stakes couldn't be any higher--the future of the human species...
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For Baby's Sake (Billionaires and Babies)

By: "Maynard, Janice"

Price: $2.60

Publisher: Harlequin:

Seller ID: 9780373734740

ISBN: 0373734743

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

His ex inherited a baby--and she needs his help Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Janice Maynard James Kavanagh is rich and sexy as sin, but his workaholic neighbor Lila Baxter has been there, done that--and has the heartbreak to prove it. They've avoided each other since their affair ended, but now she's brought home a baby. He's clearly the last man Lila wants to ask for help. But she knows nothing about babies, and James is a born family man. When one offer of help leads to another, they're soon under the same roof. Almost...
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Security Surgeon (Operation Secret)

By: "Mitchell, Kerry"

Price: $6.08

Publisher: NY, Dell (#7848): 1970

Seller ID: 53P046

Binding: Paperback

Condition: FINE

"A brilliant, young plastic surgeon is drawn in to a top-secret conspiracy. As new, except for slight tilt."
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Extreme Measures: A Novel

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $3.25

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553295771

ISBN: 0553295772

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: very good

Dr. Eric Najarian. He's young, talented, and ambitious. He has all the qualities they're looking for at White Memorial Hospital. He doesn't know he's being watched. Judged. An elite clique of medical professionals thinks he has what it takes to join their secret club. All the young doctor has to do is agree to play by their rules.

But Eric has already seen too much. A missing corpse. An unspeakable mutilation. A brutal abduction. It's only the beginning of a plot of terrifying evil. A sinister plan the group will stop at nothing to hide. And if Eric refuses to become their colleague--he wi...
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Flashback

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam Books:

Seller ID: 9780553273298

ISBN: 0553273299

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Miracle Cure

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $3.75

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553576627

ISBN: 0553576623

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The master of medical suspense takes you to prestigious Boston Heart Institute, where some patients are dying to get well....

After a troubled past, Dr. Brian Holbrook has been given a second chance to prove himself. At state-of-the-art Boston Heart Institute, he's been chosen to join the medical team testing a new miracle drug. The initial results are so promising that Brian pushes to get his father--who suffers from a dangerous heart condition--accepted into the study.

But Brian is beginning to suspect his superiors are hiding something. Why are crucial records disappearing? Why did ...
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Silent Treatment

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam Books:

Seller ID: 9780553572216

ISBN: 0553572210

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

In his five bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world--a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin. Now, in his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how the power to heal can become a license to kill....

With his wife, Evie, scheduled for surgery the next day, Dr. Harry Corbett goes to the hospital for what he hopes will be a quiet evening of reconciliation. In recent weeks Evie, never qu...
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The Society

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Bantam:

Seller ID: 9780553583625

ISBN: 055358362X

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

With every one of his ten novels a New York Times bestseller, emergency medicine physician Michael Palmer is recognized by critics and fans worldwide as a master of medical suspense. Now Palmer delivers a relentless thriller that slices to our deepest fears with surgical precision--a tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is plausible. Welcome to The Society.

At the headquarters of Boston's Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. She's not the first to die--nor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and th...
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The Second Opinion

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $5.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks:

Seller ID: 9780312937768

ISBN: 0312937768

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

Struck down by a hit-and-run driver, one of the world's most respected doctors lies comatose in the ICU unit of Boston's Beaumont Clinic. No one thinks he will survive. Two of his children believe treatment should be stopped. But his daughter Thea refuses to give up hope--and begins to suspect a cover-up. As a brilliant physician who left the hospital to work with the poor, Thea knows all too well the hidden agendas and personal conflicts that lurk beneath the surface of an elite medical center. When a late-night hospital intruder is identified as a professional killer, Thea is convinced he...
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The Last Surgeon

By: "Palmer, Michael"

Price: $5.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks:

Seller ID: 9780312587505

ISBN: 0312587503

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: very good

Surgeon Nick Garrity, a vet suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, spends his days and nights dispensing medical treatment from a mobile clinic to the homeless in D.C. and Baltimore. In addition, he is constantly on the lookout for his best friend who was recruited for a secret military mission four years ago, never to be seen again. Then there's the case of Belle Coates, an ICU nurse who appears to have killed herself...but left a subtle clue for her sister, Jillian, that connects her with Nick.

Now it's up to Nick and Jillian, a psychiatric nurse, to find out what really ha...
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"Final Procedure, The"

By: "Pottinger, Stanley"

Price: $1.75

Seller ID: 9780312997250

ISBN: 0312997256

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: GOOD

The New York Times bestselling author of The Fourth Procedure delivers a breathtaking thriller--a story of genetic engineering used for unimaginable evil. Martin's Press.
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