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Night Harvest de Michael Alexiades

Night Harvest

Autor Michael Alexiades
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2013
Fourth-year medical student Demetri Makropolis has been assigned to cover orthopedics at Eastside Medical Center, one of New York City’s finest hospitals. Just as his surgery team begins to operate on New York’s leading drama critic, F. J. Pervis III, the patient suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. The team fails to resuscitate him, so the corpse is moved to the hospital’s morgue. But before the autopsy is even performed, the body vanishes from the morgue and mysteriously reappears a day later—with the brain surgically removed. Even more disturbing is the medical examiner’s discovery: Pervis was still alive when the ghostly craniotomy was performed.

With their reputation at stake, the hospital assigns NYPD’s Detective Patrick McManus to the case; meanwhile, Demetri learns of an eerily similar century-old unsolved mystery that leads him to an enigmatic figure lurking in the bowels of the medical center. With Pervis as his first experiment, "The Doctor" achieves immortality by performing inexplicable medical procedures on his live “patients,” initiating a chain reaction of chaos and murder in Manhattan.
 
A gripping tale filled with ambition, romance, jealousies, and black humor, Night Harvest is a thrilling ride that culminates in the long-abandoned elaborate network of subterranean rooms and corridors that still lie beneath present-day Manhattan.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781620454855
ISBN-10: 1620454858
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 155 x 227 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Turner

Recenzii

"All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next." —Elie Wiesel, Nobel Laureate and award-winning author of Night

"This book is a fun, scary ride. Written by a prominent New York surgeon, Night Harvest serves up a strong cocktail mixing the author's unique knowledge of those terrifying black holes, big-city hospitals, the godlike Caesars who run them, a satanic villain or three (one of them a critic, of course), and a platoon of smart, young, and gorgeous residents for us to root for, and worry about. It is great fun, smartly written, and hard to put down. Pick it up." —Brian Dennehy, award-winning actor

"First-time author Dr. Michael Alexiades has written a medical thriller that will set your pulse racing, your blood pressure rising, and your temperature shooting through the roof. What a debut!” —Michael Takiff, author of A Complicated Man: The Life of Bill Clinton as Told by Those Who Know Him

Notă biografică

Michael Alexiades is a renowned New York City orthopedic surgeon at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS). As Assistant Clinical Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, he is active in New York’s Finest Foundation, chairs the NYPD Article II Medical Board, and is Chief Surgeon for the NY State Troopers Association. He is the chairman of physical fitness at the world renowned New York Athletic Club and also reviews cases for the Office of Professional Medical Conduct. Night Harvest is his first novel.

Extras

The next thing Pervis knew, he was on a gurney heading down a hallway. Strange dreams during the surgery had him perturbed: he dreamt of being pounded on his chest until his ribs cracked and being electrocuted multiple times. He tried now to lift his head but could not muster the strength. Strange, he thought, the knee didn’t hurt at all – his surgeon must be damn good after all. Strange also that his peripheral vision was blocked by what seemed to be black sheets. As he looked between them he expected to see the anesthesiologist, a preppy white guy with horn-rimmed glasses, wheeling him, but this man was Asian.  Nor did he recognize the man leading the way at the foot of the gurney. As they entered the elevator, Pervis realized they must be residents or nurses taking him to the recovery room. But he could swear that the last time he had surgery here, gastric bypass, the recovery room was on the same floor as the OR and the anesthesiologist took him there. Well, he thought, this is a teaching institution, where the doctors-in-training do all the work while the attendings trade stocks all day on their Blackberries.  Just wait until I receive the anesthesia bill – that doctor will have some explaining to do.

As the elevator door opened, the transporters continued to chat and laugh.  Pervis noted that the hallway they entered was much darker than the other parts of the hospital. The medical center was probably trying to cut power costs. The hallway was also much hotter and stuffier than usual, and his body felt very damp and clammy, no doubt a lingering effect of the anesthesia. They passed what looked and sounded like kitchens and rounded a corner to enter an even darker corridor, with overhead steam pipes.

He tried to speak to the transporters but they continued to ignore him as they rolled along. Why can’t they hear me? Pervis thought. He tried to yell and even grab the transporter’s arm but to no avail – he felt physically and psychologically paralyzed. He started to feel severe pain in his chest and ribs, as if the pounding was no dream, and his neck was sore.  Pervis realized something had gone very wrong.

The two men hit a button on the wall to open a large door.  They went through it into a room that was practically freezing. The two men transferred him roughly to another stretcher, one that was cold and hard. He labored to shout out or sit up, but the efforts ended at his brainstem. The transporters turned and were exiting the room when the Asian one said something to the other then turned, walked up to the gurney, and zipped closed what was apparently a black plastic bag surrounding Pervis, leaving him in utter darkness. As Pervis heard the two men leave, and the door slam shut behind them, he recalled that there had been a sign over the room’s entrance:
                                    
SUBBASEMENT
MORGUE

AUTHORIZED
PERSONNEL
ONLY

Descriere

A riveting debut thriller from one of New York’s most eminent surgeons, Night Harvest follows the bizarre disappearance of patients from a Manhattan hospital into the murky underground of the city.

Fourth-year medical student Demetri Makropolis has been assigned to cover orthopedics at Eastside Medical Center, one of New York City’s finest hospitals. Just as his surgery team begins to operate on New York’s leading drama critic, F. J. Pervis III, the patient suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. The team fails to resuscitate him, so the corpse is moved to the hospital’s morgue. But before the autopsy is even performed, the body vanishes from the morgue and mysteriously reappears a day later—with the brain surgically removed. Even more disturbing is the medical examiner’s discovery: Pervis was still alive when the ghostly craniotomy was performed.

With their reputation at stake, the hospital assigns NYPD’s Detective Patrick McManus to the case; meanwhile, Demetri learns of an eerily similar century-old unsolved mystery that leads him to an enigmatic figure lurking in the bowels of the medical center. With Pervis as his first experiment, "The Doctor" achieves immortality by performing inexplicable medical procedures on his live “patients,” initiating a chain reaction of chaos and murder in Manhattan.
 
A gripping tale filled with ambition, romance, jealousies, and black humor, Night Harvest is a thrilling ride that culminates in the long-abandoned elaborate network of subterranean rooms and corridors that still lie beneath present-day Manhattan.