Palmer, Michael

The lives of a medical student who lost a lung while undergoing treatment at a Brazilian hospital, a private eye investigating the death of a man who seems to have been an involuntary bone marrow donor, and a scientist suffering from an incurable disease are linked by their unknown ties to an illegal transplant organ trade.

When Abby Dolan begins a new job as an emergency room physician in a small California town she uncovers a series of unexplained deaths which leads her into a dangerous game of suspicion, accidents, and threats.

On the night of the State of the Union address, President James Allaire expects to give the speech of his career. But no one anticipates the terrifying turn of events that forces him to quarantine everyone in the Capitol building.

Dr. Nick Garrity and psych nurse Gillian Coates determine that one-by-one, each of those in the operating room for a fatally botched case is dying. Their discoveries pit them against genius Franz Koller--the highly-paid master of the "non-kill." As doctor and nurse move closer to finding the terrifying secret behind these killings, Koller has been given a new directive: his mission will not be complete until Gillian and Garrity, the last surgeon, are dead.

When one of Dr. Sarah Balwin's patients dies, her sometimes unortodox treatments come under attack and she finds that other patients may be at risk, but not from natural causes.

Dr. Jessie Copeland, having pioneered a tiny robot designed to excise tumors that had previously been considered inoperable, draws the attention of remorseless mercenary Claude Malloche who thinks nothing of threatening the lives of thousands of people in order to get Copeland to use her technology on his brain tumor.

Eric Najarian, a dedicated young physician struggles to unlock a deadly conspiracy at White Memorial Hospital.

Brian Holbrook, having overcome the addiction to prescription painkillers that robbed him of his license to practice medicine, is offered an opportunity to join in the testing of a new medicine which supposedly has the power to reverse heart disease, but his comeback hits a snag when he begins to realize something is very wrong with the drug.

When Abby Dolan begins a new job as an emergency room physician in a small California town she uncovers a series of unexplained deaths which leads her into a dangerous game of suspicion, accidents and threats.