"John Collee has a masterful hand at narrative and a fast sure prose style... His work is clear, artfully unaddorned, and paced like a race hose" - Newsday"With complete believability the plot keeps twisting right up to the final words" Time magazineHospital orderly Matthew Harris is every bit as smart as the junior doctors he works alongside. He's also trapped, bored, ambitious and ruthless. When a medical intern dies, Matthew assumes his identity and takes the dead man's ...

When an Edinburgh surgeon develops the ability to cure cancer with a single touch, his gift disrupts his quietly ordered life and touches off a struggle between the worlds of Indian mysticism and Western medical science.