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The Fifth Vial
- Narrated by: J. Charles
- Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
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Summary
From Boston, a disgraced medical student travels to South America to deliver a research paper that could save her career and becomes a victim of an unspeakable crime....Thousands of miles away, a brilliant, reclusive scientist, dying from an incurable disease that threatens to make each tortured breath his last, is on the verge of perfecting a serum that could save millions of lives, and bring others inestimable wealth....In Chicago, a disillusioned private detective, on the way to his third career, is hired to determine the identity of a John Doe, killed on a Florida highway, with mysterious marks on his body.
Three seemingly disconnected lives, surging unrelentingly toward one another. Three lives becoming irrevocably intertwined. Three lives in mounting peril, moving ever closer to the ultimate confrontation against a deadly secret society with godlike aspirations and roots in antiquity.
Medical student. Scientist. Private eye. Three people who will learn the deeper meanings of brilliance and madness, truth and deception, trust and betrayal.
Three lives linked forever by a single vial of blood: the fifth vial.
Critic reviews
"Palmer taps a real medical issue for storytelling thrills." ( Boston magazine)
"A tale set at the very edge of our medical knowledge. I loved it!" (Tess Gerritsen)
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- Leslie
- 29-01-09
Would make a great movie
Power corrupts and this book talks about how power corrupts the medical profession. Lots of tangled webs and interweaving of stories. I enjoyed it immensely.
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- Niels
- 23-03-09
What a surprise
Having had a few books that we did not like much I had chosen this one. What a surpise, Enjoyed it thouroughly, suspence, murder, baddies and goodies, and it grips you right to the end. It may even be possible...............!?
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