內容簡介
狙擊槍與巴雷特been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapletoncollege graduation and almost as long since hebeen in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Once a highly regarded ophthalmologist, Jackcareer took a dramatic turn after a tragic accident that destroyed his family. But that, too, is very much in the past: Jack has remarried—to long-time colleague and fellow medical examiner Laurie Montgomery— and is the father of a young child.
A post-mortem on a young college student who had recently been treated by a chiropractor, leads Jack to investigate alternative medicine. What makes some people step outside the medical establishment to seek care from practitioners of Eastern philosophies and even faith healers?
classmate Shawn Doherty is now a renowned archaeologist and biblical scholar at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art. He has recently obtained permission for a final dig beneath Saint Peter in Rome—despite a long-standing grudge against the Catholic Church—and has made a startling discovery with hugeecclesiasticaland medical implications.
When Kevin Murray, now Bishop of thearchdioceseof New York, gets wind of Shawn findings, he desperate to keep them from the public. Kevin has strong political ambitions within the Church, but his association with Shawn threatens to undermine them. Kevin turns to his old friend Jack to help protect an explosive secret—one with the power to change live forever.
中文簡介
這是30多年以來紐約市驗屍官傑克Stapleton的大學畢業典禮上幾乎一樣長,因為他一直保持聯絡,與以前的同學肖恩多爾蒂和凱文莫里。一旦被高度認可的眼科醫生,傑克的生涯就一個戲劇性的轉變在發生一場悲慘的意外事故,毀掉了他的家庭。然而,這也非常過去:傑克和他的同事remarried-to長期驗屍官勞麗蒙哥馬利的父親——是一個小孩子。
屍體檢驗年輕的大學生剛剛接受脊椎指壓治療者,使傑克調查替代醫學。是什麼使得一些人外面解決醫療機構的醫生尋求東方哲學的人文關懷,甚至信心的療愈者嗎?
傑克的同學肖恩多現在是一個著名的考古學家和聖經學者大都會博物館的現代藝術。他最近獲許在最終挖聖彼德在Rome-despite長期怨恨天主教Church-and已經取得了驚人的發現與巨大的教會和醫學的影響。
當凱文·默里主教教區現在紐約,得知肖恩的研究結果,他會不顧一切地阻止他們公眾。凱文具有較強的政治野心教會內部,但他的協會和肖恩威脅要破壞。凱文轉向他的老朋友傑克幫助保護一個爆炸性的secret-one與力量來改變永遠活著。
作者簡介
Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word 'medical' to the thriller genre, and over twenty years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fantasy to produce a over twenty-seven international bestsellers, including Outbreak (1987), Terminal (1993),contagion (1996), Chromosome 6(1997) and most recently Foreign Body (2008).
醫生、作家的過程中,被許多人認為羅賓·庫克在引入這個詞的醫療的驚悚片,二十多年之後出版他的小說的突破、昏迷,他將繼續占據類別,他創造了。廚師已成功地結合醫學事實與幻想產生二十七分之一國際暢銷書,包括爆發(1987)、終端(1993),傳染病(1996)、染色體6(1997)和最近異物(2008)。
