baronessekat | 2020 Popsugar Reading Challenge: A medical thriller

The Patient by Michael Palmer

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Dr. Jessie Copeland is a Neurosurgeon at Boston Memorial who has been working on cutting edge technology to use robotics to remove previously inoperable tumors. Besides the pressure of being one of the team on the cutting edge of surgical tech, she is dealing with a Department Head who is more concerned with image and prestige instead of actual medicine.

Alex Bishop is a CIA agent who has spent 5 years tracking down a ghost - Claude Malloche, a international assassin who many do not believe exists. Alex comes to Boston because rumor has it that Malloche has been diagnosed with a large brain tumor and would seek out the best to help him.

Alex posses as a hospital security guard because he believes that his target is coming there to force the neurosurgical team to fix him. The question is, can he catch a man that no one knows what he looks like, save lives and possible get the girl?

*****

I was pleasantly surprised with this book. It's not my go to genre at all. But despite the fact that it was clear by "technology" used in the book that it was written at the beginning of the millenium (it refers to using ICQ to contact someone online, pagers being used as the primary form on contacting someone immediately), I found myself interested in the story. OK, I figured out who the bad guy was almost immediately upon his introduction to the story but that didn't bother me. It became a "when are they going to figure it out?"

I am also surprised to find myself thinking that I may look for other books by this author when I need a change of pace from my usual reads.

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