Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780449004500
ISBN number: 0449004503
Label: Fawcett
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 345
Printing Date: March 01, 1999
Publishing house: Fawcett
Release Date: March 01, 1999
Sale Popularity Level: 558241
Studio: Fawcett
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BREEDING GROUND
When a nurse in Buffalo dies at St. Paul's Hospital of a once-treatable bacteria, Dr. Earl Garnet and his colleagues try to remain calm. They track the origin of the sickness to University Hospital. But as the infection rages out of control there and more people fall gravely ill--including Garnet's own wife--Earl uncovers a shocking connection between the victims.
KILLING GROUND
Throughout the community, panic and paranoia spread as wildly as the outbreak itself, and the entire University Hospital staff is quarantined. Yet the mastermind who created this deadly superresistant strain may be someone they know, someone locked within the barricades. Now the sociopath has threatened to infect fifty more people. And that will be only the beginning. . . .
DEATH ROUNDS
No one captures the complex workings of an urban hospital like former ER physician Dr. Peter Clement. His new medical thriller ranges from the realm of microbiology to raw, human rage--in a plot so chillingly authentic it could be happening right now. . . .
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I read this book and thought it to be a great page turner... it didn't take me long to read it, I couldn't wait to get to the end.
Another thing that I liked about this book is that the main character continues from Lethal Injection. The medical information was very interesting... makes you think how and if??? It kept me guessing right until the end... I can't wait for his subsequent book!!
I would recommend this book!!
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The only positive aspect of this sluggish, poorly written novel about an antibiotic-resistant bacteria is the medical information, but for some it may be difficult to follow.
The negative aspects are multiple (listed here in descending order):
(a) the culprit is obvious well before the middle of the novel. Given this, the reader is left to wonder if the protagonist, a supposedly intelligent physician (who constantly plays into the hands of the villain) has cottage cheese in place of brains, or if the author expects us to figure it out and the fact that we know "who dunnit," while the protagonist doesn't, is supposed to build dramatic tension. If the former, it's hard to feel any connection with the protagonist, who, by his stupidity, is more-or-less responsible for multiple deaths (of course, the novel would have ended earlier had the protagonist seen what the reader easily discerns). If the latter, I for one don't like that plot device. Either way, the main problem is not knowing which. If I had to guess, given the "cagey" way the protagonist, as he's waiting for the killer to walk through a door, says he knows who's going to go through the door (and guess what? so do we) without naming the character, I would say the author doesn't itend that we know. But we do, and we wonder how this guy (the physician-protagonist, or the physician-turned-author, you take your pick) got through medical school.
(b) the prose is over-inflated, filled with passages of inner thoughts by the protagonist (the novel is written in the very first person), who ruminates incessantly without every reaching any of the obvious conclusions (see above). I ended up skimming most such passages, and eventually just skipped to the end to confirm my knowledge of the killer.
(c) the plot is elaborate and clunky. In order to keep the protagonist "in the dark," the author has to set up a situations that are marginally plausible and motivations that are suspect and overly elaborate.
(d) The protagonist and his wife, another full-time physician, essentially abandon their infant child to the nanny. They think about the kid, they have a couple scenes with him, but they're never home, except to sleep and muse about who the "mysterious phantom killer" might be. The rest of the time, they leave the child with the nanny. I suppose this is something that happens in real life, but I find it just plain offensive and wonder why it's even in the novel, since it contributes little to the plot. (d) and finally, a personal gripe: The protagonist refers to his wife as "lady" on multiple occasions (as in, "Hey, lady, you really know how to play me"). I don't like it. Maybe it's not something that bother other people.
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This is an book that is about a deadly virus going around through the hospita1. Everyone is coming down with the harmful disease! Who is creating the dreadful disease? Find out when you read Death Rounds by Peter Clement!
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I bought this book, because I really enjoyed his previous one "Lethal Injection". It definitely was a real page-turner for me. I couldn't wait to get to the end of it, to see how it would end. The fact that he repeats his characters from the very first book, I think is great. I had a hard time figuring out who the killer was. If you have a few hours to spare one day, start this book, you won't be able to put it down.
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The back cover blurb and inside praise for Lethal Practice convinced me to buy this book but I was disappointed. It definitely was NOT a page-turner for me. I finished it only because I wanted to see how it would end. My main complaint is that there isn't much action to propel the plot. The novel is chiefly about hospital politics (boring), and I found myself not really caring about most of the characters. I figured out who the killer was about halfway through the book because the culprit is the least likely suspect. The medical portions are well done but that's not enough to make up for the shortcomings. If you want to read an excellent novel dealing with an emerging unstoppable infectious organism try The Third Pandemic by Pierre Ouellette. Another action-packed medical thriller is Threshold by Ben Mezrich. I also recommend the books by Tess Gerritsen.
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