Isolation Ward

by Joshua Spanogle | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0440242282 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Kislany on 3/30/2007
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Journal Entry 1 by Kislany on Friday, March 30, 2007
Straight out of today’s hospitals and labs–and tomorrow’s headlines–comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before it is too late….

In Baltimore’s St. Raphael’s Hospital, three newly admitted patients are among society’s most helpless citizens: female residents of Baltimore’s group homes for the mentally impaired, their bodies racked by a virus the likes of which no one at St. Raphael’s has ever seen.

Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is one of the first on the scene. A young investigator from the Centers for Disease Control, Nate is paid to explore the bizarre, the exotic, and the baffling–from superviruses to bioterrorism. But as soon as Nate begins to investigate the lives and habits of the victims, he knows something is terribly wrong. Using all his skills as a medical detective, Nate soon zeroes in on the “vector”–the one person who had sexual contact with the first victims. And when that suspect is found murdered, Nate fears that the disease he’s chasing may not be an act of nature, but of man.

With his brash style angering his superiors and fellow investigators alike, Nate turns to an old colleague and former lover, Dr. Brooke Michaels, for help. Together the two investigators follow a twisting trail of clues to a discovery that is at once groundbreaking and unspeakable. And as a circle of treachery tightens around him, Nate is about to confront the most chilling revelation of all–and a past Nate himself has been trying to escape.

At once a taut medical thriller and a riveting psychological portrait of a young doctor on the edge, Isolation Ward is a tale of runaway tension–with a brilliant “what-if” premise that is harrowing…heartbreaking…and impossible to wrench from your imagination.

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Journal Entry 2 by Kislany on Sunday, May 6, 2007
Really engrossing read. As big as the book is (close to 500 pages), I've read it in a weekend.
I'm really looking forward to the second in the series with Dr. Nathaniel McCormick.

Journal Entry 3 by Kislany at on Friday, May 11, 2007

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Journal Entry 4 by catsalive from Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Friday, June 1, 2007
Thanks Kislany.

Journal Entry 5 by catsalive at Rooty Hill, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Some interesting medical action but it was way too long, it dragged on and on and on. The soul-searching at the end was irritating and Nate McCormick deserves everything he gets for being a pain in the neck.

Journal Entry 6 by catsalive at Laverton, Western Australia Australia on Sunday, November 28, 2010

Released 13 yrs ago (11/29/2010 UTC) at Laverton, Western Australia Australia

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Journal Entry 7 by wingcrimson-tidewing at Balingup, Western Australia Australia on Monday, December 6, 2010
Arrived in a baggie with lots of travel buddies. Thanks for the rabcks catsalive.

Released 11 yrs ago (6/27/2012 UTC) at Bunbury Forum Shopping Centre in Bunbury, Western Australia Australia

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