Hard-working, second year pediatric resident Dr. Egan is chronically exhausted, as are most residents at Malloy Medical Center, a very busy New York CIty hospital that is humming with activity 24 hours a day and renowned for both its transplant service and in vitro fertilization clinic. One day Egan is woken at 3 AM to see a baby who has arrived in the emergency room with early signs of bacterial meningitis. Despite Egan's frantic efforts, the baby worsens and ends up brain dead in the ped...

Hugh Clegg was a founding figure of post-war British Industrial Relations, the forerunner of Employment Relations and Human Resource Management, as taught in most Business Schools today. He defined ‘industrial democracy’ as collective bargaining with trade unions, laid the foundations for the pluralist approach to Industrial Relations, was a key figure in the post-war social sciences and a major public policy player. More widely, he was an important figure in the Cold War social democratic...

This book poses a major revisionist challenge to 20th century British labour history, aiming to look beyond the Marxist and Fabian exclusion of working class experience, notably religion and self-help, in order to exaggerate ‘labour movement’ class cohesion. Instead of a ‘forward march’ to secular state-socialism, the research presented here is devoted to a rich diversity of social movements and ideas. In this collection of essays, the editors establish the liberal-pluralist tradition, wit...

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Select is "one of the masters of the medical thriller and this one will keep you page-turning" (Larry King, USA Today).Dr. Duncan Lathram is a brilliant plastic surgeon who recently invented a dissolving implant that allows incisions to heal without scarring. His unparalleled artistry in the operating room is the salvation of all the biggest power players in Washington, DC, whenever they need t...

When DC is leveled by a nuclear attack and the President is assassinated, former CIA op Beck Casey rises from the ashes to bring terrorists to justice . . ."Washington . . . gone."Ominous words uttered on an Israeli submarine stationed in the Gulf of Oman moments before a torpedo destroys that vessel as well.A nuclear strike has rendered the American capital a radioactive wasteland. But that's just the beginning of a vast, coordinated terro...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Coma comes a chilling novel that asks: What happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medial “incubators” against their will?“Brutally intense . . . a medical thriller cannot get any better than Host.”—Associated PressLynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina’s Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her oth...

A doctor uncovers a series of suspicious deaths that may be someone's twisted idea of mercy in this "superior thriller" from the New York Times–bestselling author's ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).Dr. Julie Devereux is an outspoken advocate for the right to die—until a motorcycle accident leaves her fiancé, Sam, a quadriplegic. Sam begs to end his life, but Julie sees hope in a life together. When he suddenly dies from an unexpected heart atta...

An ER doctor with a fatal illness turns vigilante to catch a killer in this medical thriller by the New York Times–bestselling author.Between the chaos of the ER and her work at the Advocacy Center, Dr. Angela Rossi desperately needed rest. Then she was diagnosed with Fatal Insomnia—and given only a few months to live. Her plan is to escape Pennsylvania and live her last days on a tropical island. But first she'll need to wrap up one last rape case . . . an...

Beck Casey must stop a blue-eyed terrorist from triggering a nuclear holocaust—in a pulse-pounding thriller that "hits you like a freight train" (Shane Gericke).Former CIA op Beck Casey had thought he was done with the world of espionage and could comfortably settle into academia. But his country needs him—again. Nuclear terrorism poses an imminent threat to the United States, and to deal with this national security nightmare, Casey's going to need all the help he ...

Doctor Peter Branstead’s neurology department at St. Mark’s Hospital in New York’s picturesque Greenwich Village is flooded with a series of critically ill vagrants exhibiting identical symptoms. Confused and agitated upon admission, they rapidly progress into convulsions, cardiac arrest, and death. The deaths are too methodical to be a coincidence, but how—and why—are they being killed? Peter’s investigation leads him into a dark underworld of international intrigue and into the center of...

A disgraced surgeon gets caught in a puzzling conspiracy in this thriller by the New York Times– bestselling author and his acclaimed suspense novelist son."Start reading and you won't stop. A chilling medical thriller." —Tess GerritsenDr. Carrie Bryant is a much-admired neurosurgical resident at an esteemed Boston hospital. When the relentless pace of her residency leads to a life-shattering erro...

Four psychiatric managed care companies take the next logical step in their obsession with cost containment and begin to secretly murder chronic mental patients, making it look like an accident or suicide. After Dr. James Corrigan and his wife are savagely attacked by a former patient, he joins the Death Panel and gets sucked into their vortex of evil. Everything begins to unravel when one of Dr. Corrigan’s friends is sentenced to death and he is unable to go to the police. Can he stop the...