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Michael Palmer's books have been translated into over 35 languages. Michael spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of emergency medicine, and is currently an associate director of addiction medicine in Massachusetts. He can be contacted at michaelpalmerbooks.com
With an impressive cast of villains, hillbillies and resourceful medics, Fatal is a cracking paced, topical medical thriller that leaves the reader in need of resuscitation. Disturbing medical scenarios are springing up in Belinda, W. Virginia, where patients are appearing in ER with elephant man fibromas; while in Washington the First Lady is pushing an inadequately tested super-vaccine that threatens thousands of lives. Enter Dr Matt Rutledge, a man on a mission to prove that the Belinda Coke and Coal mine is contaminating the area with poisonous toxins. With Boston coroner Nikki Solari, Matt discovers a deadly link between the vaccine and the mine. Dashing about the country on his Harley, it's all in a day's work for Matt to dispatch baddies and do a spot of improvised thoracic surgery with a pair of pliers and a condom. He's the internist you'd want if you're sick out in the boondocks. Michael Graham, a former ER doctor himself, has written a nail-biter with a familiar political theme that has resonance in modern life. Better than adrenaline. (Kirkus UK)
