作者:Michael Palmer
Dr. Harry Corbett is one of a dying breed in the medical community: a general practitioner (and decorated Vietnam vet) fighting for his professional life in a world of flashy specialists. Soon ...更多 enough, however, his battle to stay alive takes a literal turn when he crosses paths with Anton Perchek, a hired syringe whose specialty is interrogation for the highest bidder. Following his wife Evie's suspicious death, Harry learns that the woman he had been disappointingly married to was leading a shadow existence as an investigative writer. While researching a book about escort services, she inadvertently stumbled across a health-insurance conspiracy known as the Roundtable, whose members sent Perchek to eliminate her (in between murdering big-ticket insurance-policy claimants). Appalled, Harry receives little sympathy as a new widower: He's promptly accused of murder by a rival physician who had been having an affair with Evie. The only person who can clear Harry's name -- by proving that Perchek visited Evie's hospital room the night before she was scheduled to undergo brain surgery -- is Maura Hughes, an alcoholic whose recollection of events is clouded by the DTs. Gradually,….劇情至此想知道結局,請至圖書館預約唷!
館藏地 | 2樓電梯兩側暢銷/主題書展區 |
索書號 | PS3566.A539 P175t E0100533 |
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