Lethal Practice

by Peter Clement

Book Overview

St. Paul's Hospital, Buffalo, New York. Scandal rocks the medical community when someone murders the chief administrator, plunging a long thin cardiac needle into his heart with deadly precision. Top... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0449002810
• ISBN13: 9780449002810
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Fawcett Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.3" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Not Bad

I am a lover of medical thrillers and this one was okay. It wasn't the worst medical thriller I have ever read, but it certainly wasn't the best either. Earl Garnet is an ER physician, whose wife is pregnant and also a physician. Earl is plunged into the middle of trouble when he is called to the chief admisistrators office to find the man dead. He also discovers a cardiac needle has been broken off in the murder victims chest. There are only a handfull of doctors who are skilled enough to know how to use a cardiac needle, and Dr. Garnet is among them. This fact quickly makes him a suspect. Garnet, struggling to identify the real killer and clear his own name, soon becomes the killer's next target. The story started out just fine and had enough action and suspense to keep you wanting to read through dinner and past your bedtime. There is enough medical jargon to make it interesting, but Clement doesn't over do it. He gives a brief explanation so any layman can keep up with the story. Clement trys to give the story a twist at the end that is lame and out of the blue. It was not well done, but all in all, the story is a good one and worth your time. Hopefully Clement will get a little better with plot organization for his next effort.

Thrilling!

Great Thrilling book. I am a novice reader and found this book difficult to put down. Highly Recommended.

Absolutely Captivating

This is a book that you can't put down once you have started reading it. Get ready to lose sleep because you will want to read through the night until you finish it.

Incredibly authentic and equally frightening!

Peter Clement has captured facts from real life in an emergency department setting ... and melted them into a simply wonderful thriller. As an ED nurse ... I found his twist on the facts to be very creative yet within the realm of possibility. I couldn't put this book down!

This book was wonderful

I thought this book was GREAT!! It kept me in suspense from the beginning to the end, never knew who was responsible until the very end. Full of suspense, adventure, heart stopping moments. I can't wait for his next novel.