by R. Arundel
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GENRE: Medical
Suspense Thriller
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An epic
journey of suspense, murder, and sacrifice
Dr. Matthew
MacAulay is a facial transplant surgeon at a prestigious New York hospital.
When his friend and mentor, Tom Grabowski, dies under mysterious circumstances,
Matthew uncovers his friend’s secret: a new technique that allows perfect
facial transplants. No incisions, no scars. Tom was able to accomplish this
monumental feat with the help of Alice, a supercomputer robot with almost human
abilities. While trying to find the people responsible for murdering Tom,
Matthew realizes he is the prime suspect. He must flee for his life with the
help of Dr. Sarah Larsson, a colleague and reluctant helper, who has a secret
of her own, and Alice, who helps them make sense of a baffling series of
seemingly unrelated events. The clues carry Matthew and Sarah around the world.
They stumble onto a sinister plot of monumental proportions that leads Matthew
all the way to the White House.
The Face
Transplant is a powerful medical suspense thriller of the first order. The
novel was written by a surgeon who weaves politics, medicine, and espionage
into a tightly paced, intelligent thriller.
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EXCERPT:
Guaarrr. It sounds like water
draining from a very large bathtub, through a very large hole. I just killed
myself. I just killed the patient. Dr. Matthew MacAulay looks down on the
operating room table at the gaunt, graying man. Matthew quickly scans the
operating theater. Out of the corner of his eye, he can see the short wide man
in
the observation area.
I just killed myself, Sarah, and
Amanda.
They have been hijacked into
performing a face transplant. The patient is unknown. Mr. Glock, the short wide
man, hovers in the far end of the operating room. He made it clear that if the
patient did not survive, the three of them would be following him in short
order. The 9 mm Glock with a silencer on the end gave credence to his
profanity-laced words of warning.
Matthew looks across the operating
room table at Amanda Soto, forty-two, an American of Spanish ancestry. She has
been his scrub nurse, assisting him in the operating room for the last three
years. Divorced, one child.
It will take a few more seconds for
the monitors to tell everybody what Matthew already knows. Amanda already
knows. She is right across the table. She saw him use the robotic arm to
dissect the vessel and mistakenly cut the large artery in the neck. An
operating room nurse of Amanda’s experience has seen it all. When Matthew looks
into her eyes, they flash ever so quickly an acknowledgement that it is all
over. Instead of any words, she quietly unclamps the suction. Now a dull hiss
fills the air. To the casual observer, or the short wide man holding a 9 mm
Glock pistol in his fat stubby hands, nothing really has changed. Amanda,
anesthetist Dr. Sarah Larsson, and Dr. Matthew MacAulay act as if all is going
well.
Matthew cannot help but glance over
to the man with the 9 mm Glock. In his mind he names him Mr. Glock. Adrenaline
surges through Matthew’s body and time slows. The short wide man, Mr. Glock,
has gray eyes. Pale, gray eyes. Very pale, almost tired. Matthew remembers
reading somewhere that people with gray eyes have the best visual acuity. They
make the best marksmen, the best assassins. He wonders if this was true.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
R.
Arundel is a practising surgeon. This experience brings realism to the story.
The novel asks what would happen if a surgeon were to develop the perfect face
transplant. This would allow people to
have a new face, in essence create a new identity. You can create the perfect
double, the perfect Doppelganger.
Contact
link: http://www.amazon.com/R-Arundel/e/B00EBCQVEC
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