THE SOCIETY

Book ID/图书代码： 06830004B08169

English Summary/英文概要： 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 the victims have one thing in common: they are all high-profile executives in the managed care industry.Dr. Will Grant is an overworked and highly dedicated surgeon. He has experienced firsthand the outrages of a system that cares more about the bottom line than about the life-and-death issues of patients. As a member of the Hippocrates Society, Will seeks to reclaim the profession of medicine from the hundreds of companies profiting wildly by controlling the decisions that affect the delivery of care. But the doctor’s determination has attracted a dangerous zealot who will stop at nothing to make Will his ally. Soon Will is both a suspect and a victim, a pawn in a deadly endgame. Then, in one horrible moment, Will’s professional and personal worlds are destroyed and his very life placed in peril.

Rookie detective Patty Moriarity is in danger of being removed from her first big case—the managed care killings. To save her career, she has no choice but to risk trusting Will, knowing he may well be the killer she is hunting. Together they have little to go on except the knowledge that the assassin is vengeful, cunning, ruthless—and may not be working alone. That—and a cryptic message that grows longer with each murder: a message Grant and Moriarity must decipher if they don’t want to be the next victims.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在波士顿东部健康机构的总部有一位富有的首席执行官被残忍地杀害了。她的死并不是前无古人后无来者，这是一场恶毒的连环凶杀案，凶手至今仍逍遥法外，而受害者都有一个共性：他们都是医疗体系中的高官。 Will Grant医生是一位兢兢业业，操劳过度的外科大夫。他亲眼目睹医疗体系的丑陋面目，他们关心实质性问题比关心病人的安危要多得多。作为希波克拉底学会的一员，Will立志重振医疗保健产业，让那些从中谋取暴利危害病人生命的人滚出这个神圣的领域。但是Will医生的这一重大决定却招徕了一个危险的盲从者。很快Will成为这场游戏中的棋子，并沦为嫌疑犯，他的职业他的生活濒临崩溃，他命悬一线。
故事中的另一个主角侦探Patty Moriarity面临离职，她手上的这个连环凶杀案十分棘手，她只得倾进全力并冒险相信Will，虽然她知道Will很可能就是凶手。对他们来说，案件的线索极少，除了知道杀手狠毒无情，可能是团伙作案外，其他一无所知。不过，留给他们去揭开的还有一个谜，那是凶手作案后在被害者身上留下的记号，这可能是他们突破的关键。

Awards/获奖情况：Palmer’s 11th medical thriller (Fatal; etc.) takes careful and bloody aim at the managed care industry, beginning with the murder of several loathsome CEOs of HMOs in Massachusetts. Dr. Will Grant is a talented and caring physician in the Boston area who works long hours and hates the unfair and obstructive practices of the big insurance companies. Patty Moriarity is a rookie state cop whose first big case is investigating the deaths of the health care vultures. After some early research, Patty suspects Will, but soon enough that’s all straightened out and they’re smooching on the couch. After Will is drugged and collapses during a delicate operation, things get rough: he’s kicked out of his hospital for drug abuse and sued. Next he’s being tortured, while Patty, shot after attempting to save the boorish chauvinist detective who has taken over her case, lies in a coma. The action is a bit preachy in the beginning, but once Palmer gets all his characters in place, the suspense builds. He wraps it all up with a slam-bang battle between our love-smitten duo and some extremely nasty health insurer executives and their loyal, gun-toting minions.---From Publishers Weekly

"Relevant, gripping reading with a provocative moral dilemma at its center."---Booklist

About the Author/作者介绍： Michael Palmer, M.D., spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and is now an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s physician health program.
Michael Palmer，医学博士。在内科及急诊领域从业近20年。现任马萨诸塞州医学院内科医师健康项目的副主任。

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