ISBN: 9780553817737
Release Date: 24 Apr 2006
Average rating: (read by 29 members)

Categories: Crime & mystery

Control was the word Dr Toby Harper lived by. She strove to keep her life in order, her ER in order. But no one could have been prepared for the man she admits one quiet night to the Springer Hospital. Delirious and in critical condition, he barely responds to treatment. And then he disappears without trace. The subsequent search leads Toby to a second patient with the same infection. And it reveals an unsettling twist - the infection can only be spread through direct tissue exchange. Soon Toby's on a trail that winds from a pregnant sixteen-year-old prostitute to an unexpected tragedy in her own home. Only then does she discover the unthinkable: a terrifying and deadly epidemic is about to be unleashed ...

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hades2
Rated it 4 months ago
Excellent

shawnie
Rated it 9 months ago
Not my favourite Tess Gerritsen book, but still worth a read. it follows Dr Toby Harper as she seeks answers to the disappearance of a man brought into the hospital naked and in a dazed and confused state. What is the link between this man and the...

Sazy
Rated it 16 days ago

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