by Michael Crichton · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401325823
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«Un caso de urgencia» is a medical thriller by Michael Crichton, published by Plaza & Janés in hardback (302 pages, in Spanish).
A teenager bleeds to death in a Boston hospital and gynaecologist Arthur Lee is accused of performing an abortion on her. His friend, forensic pathologist John Berry, investigates to prove his innocence. The investigation clashes with Boston's high society, the police and the underworld, and uncovers a web of scandals and hypocrisies around abortion.
Michael Crichton wrote the novel under the pseudonym Jeffery Hudson; this edition is the translation by Margarita García de Miró of «A Case of Need» (1968), winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel.
A read for fans of suspense and crime fiction, and for those who want to discover Michael Crichton's beginnings as a novelist.
John Michael Crichton was an American author, screenwriter and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature technology and are usually within the science fiction, techno-thriller, and medical fiction genres. Crichton's novels often explore human technological advancement and attempted dominance over nature, both with frequently catastrophic results; many of his works are cautionary tales, especially regarding themes of biotechnology. Several of his stories center on themes of genetic modification, hybridization, paleontology and/or zoology. Many feature medical or scientific underpinnings, reflective of his own medical background.
