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020			_a0553580388
040			_aBSOP
041			_aEnglish
050			_aFIC _aP18p _a2001
100			_aPalmer, Michael
245			_aThe Patient / _cMichael Palmer.
264			_aNew York, USA: _bBantam Books, _c2001.
300			_a435p. ; _c17cm.
440			_aThe Patient
520			_aNeurosurgeon Jessie Copeland works at the very frontier of neurosurgery, developing technology that could revolutionize the treatment of brain tumors. But her work brings her to the attention of an infinitely dangerous man. Claude Malloche is brilliant, remorseless—a terrorist without regard for human life. He is also ill with a brain tumor considered to be inoperable. Nothing can stop Malloche from getting to the woman he believes can cure him. For those caught in his path, the nightmare has just begun...and no one is more aware of the stakes than Jessie Copeland. In brain surgery there are no guarantees—but that’s exactly what Malloche demands. With disaster just one cut away, Jessie faces the most harrowing case of her life—and the price of failure may be thousands of lives....
650			_aFiction, Medical, Thriller
942			_2lcc _cBK
999			_c53962 _d53962