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With every one of his ten novels a New York Times bestseller, emergency medicine physician Michael Palmer is recognized by critics and fans worldwide as a master of medical suspense. Now Palmer delivers a relentless thriller that slices to our deepest fears with surgical precision—a tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is plausible. Welcome to The Society.
At the headquarters of Boston’s Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. She’s not
the first to die—nor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and the victims have one thing in common: they are all high-profile executives in the managed care industry.Dr. Will Grant is an overworked and highly dedicated surgeon. He has experienced firsthand the outrages of a system that cares more about the bottom line than about the life-and-death issues of patients. As a member of the Hippocrates Society, Will seeks to reclaim the profession of medicine from the hundreds of companies profiting wildly by controlling the decisions that affect the delivery of care. But the doctor’s determination has attracted a dangerous zealot who will stop at nothing to make Will his ally. Soon Will is both a suspect and a victim, a pawn in a deadly endgame. Then, in one horrible moment, Will’s professional and personal worlds are destroyed and his very life placed in peril.
Rookie detective Patty Moriarity is in danger of being removed from her first big case—the managed care killings. To save her career, she has no choice but to risk trusting Will, knowing he may well be the killer she is hunting. Together they have little to go on except the knowledge that the assassin is vengeful, cunning, ruthless—and may not be working alone. That—and a cryptic message that grows longer with each murder: a message Grant and Moriarity must decipher if they don’t want to be the next victims.
- Sales Rank: #2262633 in Books
- Published on: 2004-08-17
- Released on: 2004-08-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.51" h x 1.07" w x 6.32" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 368 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Palmer's 11th medical thriller (Fatal; etc.) takes careful and bloody aim at the managed care industry, beginning with the murder of several loathsome CEOs of HMOs in Massachusetts. Dr. Will Grant is a talented and caring physician in the Boston area who works long hours and hates the unfair and obstructive practices of the big insurance companies. Patty Moriarity is a rookie state cop whose first big case is investigating the deaths of the health care vultures. After some early research, Patty suspects Will, but soon enough that's all straightened out and they're smooching on the couch. After Will is drugged and collapses during a delicate operation, things get rough: he's kicked out of his hospital for drug abuse and sued. Next he's being tortured, while Patty, shot after attempting to save the boorish chauvinist detective who has taken over her case, lies in a coma. The action is a bit preachy in the beginning, but once Palmer gets all his characters in place, the suspense builds. He wraps it all up with a slam-bang battle between our love-smitten duo and some extremely nasty health insurer executives and their loyal, gun-toting minions.
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Review
"'Gripping suspense, likeable heroes and hateful villains keep the pulse pounding'" Publishers Weekly "'Guaranteed to terrify anyone... Dynamite plot... fast-paced and engrossing'" Washington Post
From the Inside Flap
With every one of his ten novels a New York Times bestseller, emergency medicine physician Michael Palmer is recognized by critics and fans worldwide as a master of medical suspense. Now Palmer delivers a relentless thriller that slices to our deepest fears with surgical precision—a tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is plausible. Welcome to The Society.
At the headquarters of Boston’s Eastern Quality Health, the wealthy and powerful CEO is brutally murdered. She’s not the first to die—nor the last. A vicious serial killer is on the loose and the victims have one thing in common: they are all high-profile executives in the managed care industry.Dr. Will Grant is an overworked and highly dedicated surgeon. He has experienced firsthand the outrages of a system that cares more about the bottom line than about the life-and-death issues of patients. As a member of the Hippocrates Society, Will seeks to reclaim the profession of medicine from the hundreds of companies profiting wildly by controlling the decisions that affect the delivery of care. But the doctor’s determination has attracted a dangerous zealot who will stop at nothing to make Will his ally. Soon Will is both a suspect and a victim, a pawn in a deadly endgame. Then, in one horrible moment, Will’s professional and personal worlds are destroyed and his very life placed in peril.
Rookie detective Patty Moriarity is in danger of being removed from her first big case—the managed care killings. To save her career, she has no choice but to risk trusting Will, knowing he may well be the killer she is hunting. Together they have little to go on except the knowledge that the assassin is vengeful, cunning, ruthless—and may not be working alone. That—and a cryptic message that grows longer with each murder: a message Grant and Moriarity must decipher if they don’t want to be the next victims.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
I'll finish it, but I don't have to like it!
By J. Thompson
I have been waiting for this book for ages. A while back, I just so happened to stumble upon a Micheal Palmer book, and after devouring it, I eagerly lept from book to book, finding each one a very enjoyable (though often predictable) read. This book, I waited a while for the hardback edition and, not liking hardbacks, waited even longer for the paperback. I must admit, I am not all the way finished with this book. It may get better still. But being almost 400 pages into a 480 page book gives me enough of an insight to write a review.
This book is hard to get through. The last 100 pages have picked up, but the first couple hundered pages were kinda painful. The characters are fairly unlikeable. I don't feel any sort of connection to any of them, I'm not rooting for them, and I definitely don't feel any chemistry between Will and Patty. There are also a few more characters than usual, and I feel that Palmer, in an attempt to broaden his story arc, ended up hurting himself. There were so many characters, he didn't really take too much time with any of them. (the possible exception being, in my opinion, the Davenport widow)
As other reviewers have said, his plots appear to be more cut and paste all the time. Insert name, insert town (if it happens to be one of the few outside of White Memorial), and use the same story as the last one. But I can deal with that.
This book, however, fell short of it's mark...at least in my opinion. I will finish it, out of deference to my esteem for his previous books, rubbernecking, whatever. But I may pay a little more attention to reviews of the next one.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Nothing but cliches
By Biggles
This wasn't an easy read because it was so predictable. Every character has been done before..and usually better. You know: saintly doctor (started a soup kitchen) versus greedy corporate execs bent on squeezing profits from the poor, but humble little people; evil ex-wife who is squeezing the cash from saintly ex.; love interest slash gorgeous, hot babe in bed slash supercop who's the next Serpico; cliche Irish patriarch slash high ranking cop slash dad; evil and stupid, but conniving, cops, etc.
Contrary to what MP would have you believe, there is no such thing as low-cost Healthcare. It IS paid for by someone and many of the countries that have it have to "ration" out which patient gets what and when...if ever. No, I'm not in the profession, nor do I have a vested interest in it other than my own health.
BTW, doesn't anyone check when an author tries to use a foreign language? "Somos cierros" instead of "estamos cerrados" at the end? This is so basic that it makes me cringe. Is the publisher too cheap to spend a few bucks? Holy crap, even a first year student knows the difference. If you're going to use a foreign location, then check your facts.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
The Society An exciting new medical thriller from Michael Palmer
By Mr D.
Michael Palmer's latest medical thriller, The Society, is about the managed care industry (HMOs), and the medical profession's ongoing opposition to them.
Dr. Will Grant is a workaholic. He works almost eighty hours a week as a surgeon and an ER doctor at his hospital. He does this to make ends meet, having to pay child support for his twins (a boy and a girl), whom he adores and alimony to their mother and his ex-wife, Maxine. Despite this drain on his time and finances, Will manages to support his pet projects, a mission style soup kitchen for the poor and homeless called the Open Hearth Kitchen and The Hippocrates Society, a collection of various medical practitioners who have banded together the counter the creeping influence of the dreaded heath management organizations.
All in all, Will, who is widely respected in his field and admired for his sensitivity for his patient's welfare, has a pretty normal and uneventful life. That is until he is cajoled into representing the Society, as a last minute replacement, in a scheduled debate with Boyd Halliday, the CEO of a large and growing HMO, Excelsis Health Care. From then on his life seems to unravel. First he meets an attractive plain clothes police officer, Patty Moriarity, who is investigating a series of homicides of CEOs of three HMOs believed to be the work of a disgruntled patient or relative. At first Moriarity is attracted to Will but after she checks up on him she thinks he may possibly be involved in the murders. Then the killer calls him on his private number, congratulating Will on his skill in the debate. Then the ceiling caves in when he passes out, literally head first, into the patient's newly opened incision during surgery.
Will wakes up in intensive care and everybody is very cool to him. When his Doctor, an old friend, comes in, he tells Will that he tested positive for a massive dose of Fantanyl, an extremely dangerous and addictive drug. Will of course, is incredulous but he and nobody else can think of how it could have been administered to him. He knows he didn't do it but it seems all his co-workers and most of his friends have made up their mind, in fact his medical license is suspended and he's banned from the hospital.
As the story continues Will becomes the murder suspect for the serial killings, though he's never charged. He has become entangled in the web of intrigue surrounding the murders and he and Moriarity wind up fighting for their very lives.
Conclusion
I have read four or five novels by Michael Palmer and have enjoyed each one. The Society was not the best one but it was a very good medical thriller that had me flipping them pages. Palmer's writing style is very smooth, with just a touch of humor. He does a good job of writing his novels without going into Doctor speak but occasionally he does go into his physician mode, whereas I have a little trouble understanding but this is minimal and I simply nod my head and go on.
The story was well written and flowed well. There was always something happening in this fast moving, fast reading novel, which made it impossible for the story to become boring. Palmer developed the characters well and you really empathized with the protagonist, Will Grant. There were several antagonists of varying degrees to dilike as well. One was Detective Brasco, an obvious chauvinist, who was in charge of the investigation, who was full of himself but couldn't seem to get out of his way. At one point approaching the end of the book Moriarity saves his life and almost gets killed herself. That was the last we heard of Brasco and I would liked to have seen some sort of resolution between he and Moriarity but it was not to be.
If you like medical thrillers then this is right up your alley. Nobody, except maybe Robin Cook, does them better. Final rating 4.3 stars
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