Harvest
In this harrowing medical thriller filled with suspense and brilliantly crafted twists, Tess Gerritsen—the author of the acclaimed Rizzoli & Isles series that inspired the hit television show—delivers a pulse-pounding tale that “will make your heart skip a beat” (USA TODAY).
For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the long road to Boston’s Bayside Hospital has been anything but easy. Now, immersed in the grinding fatigue of her second year as a surgical resident, she’s elated when the hospital’s elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit.
But Abby soon makes an anguished, crucial decision that jeopardizes her entire career. A car crash victim’s healthy heart is ready to be harvested; it is immediately cross-matched to a wealthy private patient, Nina Voss. Abby hatches a bold plan to make sure that the transplant goes instead to a dying seventeen-year-old boy who is also a perfect match.
The repercussions are powerful and swift and Abby is shaken but unrepentant—until she meets the frail, tormented Nina. Then a new heart for Nina Voss suddenly appears, her transplant is completed, and Abby makes a terrible discovery: Nina’s heart has not come through the proper channels.
Defying Bayside Hospital’s demands for silence, Abby plunges into an investigation that reveals an intricate, and murderous, chain of deceptions. Every move Abby makes spawns a vicious backlash and, in a ship anchored in the stagnant waters of Boston Harbor, a final, grisly discovery lies waiting…
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Community Reviews
I was pleasantly surprised by this book. In the past, I haven't usually liked medical drama/thrillers, to the point where I can't remember the last one I read. I think it was a Robin Cook book - maybe (I can't remember). Anyway, hubby has been telling me for years that Tess Gerritsen (former surgeon turned writer) is different and that I would probably like her. He's right - I do like Gerritsen.
There were a few sections where the medicalese and jargon got to be a bit much but the thing I really dislike about medical centered books is the minutia of surgeries, which there is almost none of in this book. Most of the story centered around the discovery of a organ harvesting scam among a group of doctors.
The scary part of this story is that this crap does exist. There are really people out there, killing people (people who won't be missed) simply to harvest their organs and sell them to rich people who don't want to wait for an organ through the legal means.
Right up to the last page, this story was turning out to be a 4star rating but because of the final scene, I'm rating it 3stars. I could understand the cliff hanger ending if this book were part of a series. However, to have a cliff hanger ending on a standalone book is just irritating and completely unnecessary. It doesn't deter me from reading another Tess Gerritsen medical drama/thriller, Hopefully, cliff hanger endings on standalones isn't a habit of hers because that would deter me from become a long standing fan.
There were a few sections where the medicalese and jargon got to be a bit much but the thing I really dislike about medical centered books is the minutia of surgeries, which there is almost none of in this book. Most of the story centered around the discovery of a organ harvesting scam among a group of doctors.
The scary part of this story is that this crap does exist. There are really people out there, killing people (people who won't be missed) simply to harvest their organs and sell them to rich people who don't want to wait for an organ through the legal means.
Right up to the last page, this story was turning out to be a 4star rating but because of the final scene, I'm rating it 3stars. I could understand the cliff hanger ending if this book were part of a series. However, to have a cliff hanger ending on a standalone book is just irritating and completely unnecessary. It doesn't deter me from reading another Tess Gerritsen medical drama/thriller, Hopefully, cliff hanger endings on standalones isn't a habit of hers because that would deter me from become a long standing fan.
