Medical Thrillers from Angus Publishing

Hermes' Viper

Dr. Stuart Holton is a neurosurgeon in a large Chicago hospital where terminal patients beyond treatment are routinely found dead, but the dedicated Dr. Holton realizes that the mortality rate among his patients is becoming abnormally high.

But patients who are not terminal are dying as well. A staffer under Dr. Holton, gifted in assuming disguises ranging from a pink lady volunteer to a minor lab technician, plays the angel of death and ends the lives and sufferings of patients.

In depicting the deft motions of the surgeon and his aides, the author McFadden offers an absorbing vignette of practices and intriguing characters.

Hardcover: 352 pages ; Published: January 2001
ISBN: 1588206742

Available in: Hardcover $28.00 ; Softcover $21.95 ; Digital (download) $12.95

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The Wafer

Untold numbers of doomed patients await the donation of a beating heart. When black-market organs enter the equation, things can turn ugly. In ancient cultures, priests presented the still-living heart at a ceremony to appease the Gods.

In modern society, the church symbolically presents the wafer and wine. In "The Wafer," surgeons, the priests of medicine, acquire donor organs to extend another life, but playing God can have its penalties.

Paperback: 384 pages ; Published April 1, 2002
ISBN: 0881001244

Softcover $15.95