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The author of the best-selling Harvest delivers a chilling medical thriller in which Dr. Toby Harper traces a strange contagion taking over her emergency room to an evil conspiracy. Reprint.
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From New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen, a terrifying novel of deadly proportions as an ER doctor tries to determine the cause and cure of a fatal and mysterious virus before it becomes an epidemic.The quiet overnight shift at Springer Hospital ER suits Dr. Toby Harper just fine'until she admits a man in critical condition from a possible viral infection of the brain. The delirious man barely responds to treatment'and then disappears without a trace. Before Toby can find him, a second case occurs, revealing a terrifying fact: the virus can only be spread through direct tissue exchange. Following a trail of death that winds from a pregnant sixteen-year-old prostitute to her own home, Toby discovers the unthinkable: the epidemic didn't just happen'someone let it loose....
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