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A Case of Need

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A Case of Need

By: Michael Crichton, Jeffery Hudson
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
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The death of a doctor’s daughter may be malpractice - or murder - in this novel by a #1 New York Times-bestselling author: “I loved it” (Stephen King).

In the tightly knit world of Boston medicine, the Randall family reigns supreme. When heart surgeon J. D. Randall’s teenage daughter dies during a botched abortion, the medical community threatens to explode. Was it malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic Oath? Or was Karen Randall murdered in cold blood?

The natural suspect is Arthur Lee, a brilliant surgeon and known abortionist, who has been carrying out the illegal procedure with the help of pathologist John Berry. After Karen dies, Lee is thrown in jail on a murder charge, and only Berry can prove his friend wasn’t the one who wielded the scalpel. Behind this gruesome death, Berry will uncover a secret that would shock even the most hardened pathologist.

An Edgar Award-winning novel by the author of such blockbusters as The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park - and creator of the long-running NBC drama ER - A Case of Need is a “superb” medical-thriller mystery (Los Angeles Times).

©1968, 1996 by Jeffery Hudson; Copyright renewed 1996 by CrichtonSun LLC (P)2015 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Medical Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Crime Heartfelt Surgery Murder Medical Mysteries Fiction

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book starts off slow but gets better. very clever look on how medical procedures can go wrong and not always what you expect.

catching

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Sleep inducing - I have persevered with - certainly not my choice of book - story was very dated

Sleep inducing

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This was originally published in 1968, more than 50 years ago, and it really shows. It turns on points of medical procedure and social attitudes which have not been valid or acceptable for many years. Therefore the story has lost much of its credibility. I would not recommend buying it.

Terribly dated

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