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"Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie haben sich in einer Höhle verirrt. Es ist dunkel und kalt. Die Taschenlampe haben Sie verloren. Sie müssen raus hier, egal wie, und tasten sich am Boden entlang, als Ihre Hand plötzlich etwas Warmes findet. Vor Schreck weichen Sie zurück - um gleich noch einmal zu fühlen, was es sein könnte..."

In Mount Dragon, einem Forschungslabor in der Wüste von New Mexico, arbeiten Wissenschaftler an einem Präparat, das Tausenden von Menschen das Leben retten könnte. Doch etwas läuft gewaltig schief in diesem Labor...

Im Museum of Natural History in New York findet man zwei grausam zugerichtete Leichen. Da man kurz vor der Eröffnung einer Ausstellung steht, will die Museumsleitung nicht viel Aufhebens um die beiden Toten machen. Doch dann werden weitere verstümmelte Leichen entdeckt, die immer von einem seltsamen Gestank begleitet werden...

Im Museum of Natural History in New York findet man zwei grausam zugerichtete Leichen. Da man kurz vor der Eröffnung einer Ausstellung steht, will die Museumsleitung nicht viel Aufhebens um die beiden Toten machen. Doch dann werden weitere verstümmelte Leichen entdeckt, die immer von einem seltsamen Gestank begleitet werden...

Die Stadt wird von einer Mordserie an Obdachlosen beunruhigt, deren Leichen man in den Schächten und Kanälen tief unter den Straßen Manhattans auffindet. Lieutenant D'Agosta und der FBI-Agent Pendergast wittern einen Zusammenhang und kommen dem grauenvollen Geheimnis näher: The Devil's Attic heißt der Ort, ein Tunnelsystem Stockwerke unter den Höhlen und Stollen der Obdachlosen, wo blutgierige reptilienartige Wesen ihr Leben fristen und ihre Mordzüge Richtung Erdoberfläche vorbereiten.

Die Stadt wird gerade von einer Mordserie an Obdachlosen beunruhigt, deren Leichen man - oft ohne Kopf - in den Schächten und Kanälen tief unter den Straßen Manhattans auffindet. Lieutenant D'Agosta und der coole FBI-Agent Pendergast wittern einen Zusammenhang und kommen mit Unterstützung Margo Greens dem grauenvollen Geheimnis näher...

Twin gynecologists are found dead in their trash-littered Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Who killed them? And why? Based on a true story that Linda Wolfe was the first journalist to write about, her novel explores the mystery behind the deaths of these wealthy and prominent doctors, and the dark and perverse secret that ruled their lives - one that they tried desperately to hide until the final moments of their deaths.

An unforgettable voyage of the imagination from the bestselling author of Cocaine Nights and Super-Cannes. In parched Port-la-Nouvelle in central Africa, Dr Mallory watches his clinic fail as constant warfare between a ragged band of guerrillas and the local chief of police causes the tribal residents to flee. In this drought-plagued and poverty-ridden country he dreams of discovering a third Nile tributary to make the Sahara bloom.

Fourth-year medical student Demetri Makropolis has been assigned to cover orthopedics at Eastside Medical Center, one of New York City's finest hospitals. Just as his surgery team begins to operate on New York's leading drama critic, F. J. Pervis III, the patient suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. The team fails to resuscitate him, so the corpse is moved to the hospital's morgue. But before the autopsy is even performed, the body vanishes from the morgue and mysteriously reappears a day later - with the brain surgically removed.

In Mercy 6, David Bajo's courageous new medical thriller, four people collapse dead in the same instant within a newly renovated Los Angeles hospital. Dr. Mendenhall, the woman who is head of the emergency room, isn't convinced the cause of death is a contagion. But it's in the interests of the hospital administrators - and of the world at large - for people to think that it is. If the world knew the truth there could only be widespread panic. The hospital is immediately locked down. Information is suddenly being strictly controlled.

Dolphins are magical creatures: They comfort the heartbroken, rescue the lost, even heal the sick. At the Hope Key Dolphin Assisted Therapy center in Florida dolphins use their healing powers to help autistic children communicate and to soothe other troubled people. But what if you don't want help? What if you've gone so far down the wrong path that you can't go back? Katy Grant can't see any way back from the path her life has taken. And she doesn't really care. Working at Hope Key keeps her out of jail. And it just might give her the chance at revenge she wants on the man who ruined her life.

A new novel from this master storyteller. One beautiful Scottish spring day, Julian Custer comes across the devastating scene of a very recent car crash. Only the passenger has survived : Delia Barrow is confused and badly injured; her name is all she can remember. It seems that Julian is all Delia has. Luckily, Julian is a solicitor, and so begins a voyage of discovery as they try to discover the identity of the passengers in the missing car....

Sometimes you find happiness where, and when, you least expect it. For Mirabelle Zielinski's children, happiness always seems to be just out of reach. Her polished oldest daughter, Katya, clings to a stale marriage with a workaholic husband and three spoiled children. Her son, Ivan, so creative, is a down-in-the-dumps songwriter with the worst taste in women. And the "baby," impulsive Irina, who lives life on a whim, is now reluctantly pregnant and hitched to a man who is twice her age.

A mysterious new contagion is decimating the population. It starts in the lungs, like the flu, then moves to the bones, where it weakens and breaks them, eventually killing the host. The disease's origin, methods of propagation and means of contraction are all unknown. There is no vaccine, and none is expected, as the virus is protean and elusive. If it remains unchecked and mutates into a more virulent form, it will become an extinction level event.

"Dog days and the fresh bodies are arriving once again." So begins the fall term at South Carolina Medical College, where Dr. Jacob Thacker is on probation for Xanax abuse. His interim career - working public relations for the dean - takes an unnerving detour into the past when the bones of African American slaves, over a century old, are unearthed on the campus. Out of the college’s dark past, these bones threaten to rise and condemn the present.

A New York story, a dark comedy, Balls tells of the thirty-year-old Henry Schiller, a songwriter and lounge-player, in love with a woman far younger and more musically gifted than himself, one with her eye on other men and the rise of her own career, whose crisis deepens when he discovers he has testicular cancer.

Bingham Foundation field investigator Samuel Todd discovers a conspiracy of silence surrounding the research being conducted by Dr. Telford Gordon Thorndecker, the head of the well-to-do senior care facility Crittenden Hall. Thorndecker is secretly breaking every law of God and man - and faces an ultimate decision. Lawrence Sanders at his suspenseful best.

When 57-year-old Ethan Zachary is ravaged by mysterious ball lightning, he starts growing progressively younger. As the condition begins to take hold, he realizes the end result will eventually kill him, ruining his plans to run for Congress - as well as his marriage. He does find a few compensations: his new youth and vigor attract a Cuban refugee reporter and a young lady lawyer, and his libido has been magically restored. Then a reclusive billionaire snatches "EZ" to use him as a medical guinea pig.

The Trauma ICU of a Level 1 trauma center is the setting for this thought-provoking novel, which reveals the ruthlessness of medical education and practice. James Fleming recounts a day in the life of a resident in emergency medicine at an urban teaching hospital. The novel's title, which translates loosely as I thirst, echoes the Christ of St. John. Tengo Sed's protagonist, however, known only as Hovercraft because he is always around, always feeling on edge, is not a savior but a hapless resident with a tendency toward mysticism.

Brander, security chief of the Syrtis Base on Mars, has been forced to invoke Emergency Directive SB-17-5Z. Two men have died, victims of an unknown alien disease. The entire base is now isolated. No one can enter or leave under any circumstances. Dr. John Naysmith, newly arrived on Mars, is leading a small medical team in a desperate attempt to isolate the virus and discover a serum to combat it. But if the disease continues to spread and gets out of control, then Brander will have no alternative but to annihilate the base and everyone in it with nuclear bombs!