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Title: Extreme Measures by Michael Palmer ISBN: 0-553-29577-2 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.71 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Another excellent, suspenseful page-turner !
Comment: Dr. Eric Najarian is a rising star at White Memorial Hospital. He and a colleague are vying for a big promotion, when suddenly Eric is approached to join a secret society ("Caduceus") as long as he is willing to perform an "unusual" treatment when asked. Pressures of the job and life in general weigh on Eric as he debates what to do. Soon, some missing bodies and other unexplained phenomenon at the hospital shake his trust in everything and send him on a hunt for what is going on. We readers get to know more than he does for quite a while, but we dare say few will guess who the ultimate bad guys wind up being.
This is our fourth novel by Palmer and we have enjoyed them all immensely. Sort of a "thinking man's Robin Cook", Palmer happens to be both a medical and publishing contemporary of Cook -- but to our mind, one with less "fantastic" plots. Palmer's ability to endear his characters to us, to draw out the suspense without getting boring, and to craft a twisty plot lead to hours of entertainment. Enjoy! [p.s., the movie based on this book is also entertaining, but in actuality bears little resemblance to the Palmer story per se...]
Rating: 4
Summary: More than meets the eye?
Comment: I read this book about two years ago. It is well written although I thought it "jumped around a lot." The characters were well rounded and the premise plausible. I work in the medical field and have enjoyed all of Mr. Palmer's offerings. There is nothing vague or ambiguous about this book.
I would like to hear from anyone who has seen the movie made from this book. I hope I'm not the only one who sees no connection whatsoever between the two. Perhaps someone knows why?
Rating: 2
Summary: Implausable
Comment: The plot is really quite silly and almost totally implausable. The characters are neither very interesting nor well developed. Still, the book kept me going to the contrived trick ending.
More narrow escapes and deus ex machinas, and I never heard so many people crying, "pleeease". I'm surprised they didn't contrive a way to save Laura's long-lost brother. Just about all the other good guys got saved. It's not fair now is it?
Just a few, out of many many logic questions: how did that zombie farm get a no fly-over agreement? how come nobody thought to bury the bodies of the two people killed at the beginning? What happened to the cancer cure?
Laura's brother, zombified, half-dead, still managed to continuously beat up whole packs of armed and dangerous baddies...
Say, now that I think of it, I'd like to change my rating from 3 to a 2.
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Title: Natural Causes by Michael Palmer ISBN: 0553568760 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Side Effects by Michael Palmer ISBN: 0553276182 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Silent Treatment by Michael Palmer ISBN: 0553572210 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 February, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Miracle Cure by Michael Palmer ISBN: 0553576623 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 January, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: Critical Judgment by Michael Palmer ISBN: 0553574086 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 05 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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