Side Effects: a heart-stoppingly tense and compelling medical thriller that will get right under your skin

by Michael Palmer (Author)

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  2001

  $3.25

  Has everything - a terrifying plot.breakneck pace.vividly drawn characters. (John Saul). Dr Kate Bennett is a brilliant young pathologist with a loving husband and a bright future. But her world is about to be turned upside down. At the Omnicenter, a high-tech health facility for women, a strange and puzzling illness has killed two patients - an illness which has no definite cause, let alone a cure. When Kate is called in to investigate the mysterious deaths she uncovers a horrifying secret which certain influential people will stop at nothing to protect. It is a terrible medical discovery which has its roots in one of the greatest evils in the history of humankind. Now her best friend has fallen ill and is exhibiting the same symptoms as the previous victims - Kate must expose the sinister plot before it is too late. However, with powerful enemies and few friends Dr Bennett's disturbing discovery comes to threaten not only her career, but also her marriage, her sanity and her life.

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  Paperback
  1985

  $4.19