by Michael Palmer · Círculo de Lectores, S.A. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422695394
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«El paciente» is the medical thriller novel by Michael Palmer, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (382 pages, in Spanish).
Neurosurgeon Jessie Copeland develops a small robot, ARTIE, designed to operate on brain tumours considered inoperable. When Claude Malloche, a sick mercenary, believes that this technology can save his life, tension takes over the hospital and Jessie ends up at the forefront of a borderline case.
Novel originally published in English as «The Patient» in 2000; this Spanish edition is from 2002 and includes a translation by Diego Castillo.
For readers of medical thrillers and suspense novels with a hospital setting.
Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D., was an American physician and author. His novels are often referred to as medical thrillers. Some of his novels have made The New York Times Best Seller list and have been translated into 35 languages. One, Extreme Measures (1991), was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name starring Hugh Grant, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Gene Hackman.
