Fertile Ground
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (693 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060187522 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 283 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Investigators will find a puzzling link between the two victims: both had logged into the database of the Centers for Disease Control just moments before their deaths. And in a nearby Beacon Hill laboratory, Jake's fertility clinic is destroyed in a suspicious fire that kills his young research assistant. Ben Mezrich captured the attention of readers everywhere with his critically acclaimed first novel, Threshold, a shocking scientific thriller that provoked People magazine to declare him a talent ready to "give Michael Crichton a run for his money." The promise of that debut was followed with Reaper, which combined cutting-edge tech-nological invention with classic suspense. Jake and Brett now find themselves the object of a killer with a deadly secret, expendable pawns in a treacherous corporate cover-up. Now Mezrich returns with his tour de force, Fertile Ground, a mesmerizing page-turner that will keep fans on the edge of their seats.A nightmare is about to be unleashed. Racing against the clock, Jake and Brett will put their lives on the line to stop an epidemiological crisis about to be unleashed across the entire nation-and, w
FERTILE FUN I do pity readers who can't read a book without looking for errors or "unrealities" that they seem to know in their vast wealth of useless knowledge. I found this book highly entertaining as a medical "what if" thriller. Not a treatise on anything. Just a fun re. Michael Crichton and Robin Cook need not worry, yet. Young Mr. Mezrich is obviously able to craft a decent thriller plot. However, his characterizations frequently veer into cartoon territory, especially his current crop of villains. Unfortunately he forgets, or is clueless from the get-go, that the key to getting. Boston Again Attacked in Medical Thriller Gerald S. Rosen Ben Mezrich joins Robin Cook in unleashing medical disaster on the poor unsuspecting inhabitants on Boston. Once again big business looks to maximize profits at the expense of the consumer. Although the premise of this novel is still a bit far fetched at the daw
In fact, the 27 chapters read more like 27 tidy, accessible movie scenes: the hero copes with a familiar, personal shortcoming (Jake's clinical approach to getting his wife pregnant is ruining his marriage), with clever bad-guy dialogue (Malthus Scole spouts clich?d business maxims as he kills his victims) and the requisite "unexpected" betrayal. The plot has just enough science to make it plausible, and readers may tolerate the unlikely dovetailing of events, but this thriller is essentially ephemeral, enjoyable entertainment. Fertility doctor Jake Foster discovers a new syndrome causing male sterility, including his own, while his wife, Brett, a second-year ER attending at Boston Central, has seen several healthy young men die from mysterious, massive internal and external hemorrhaging. Soon the husband and wife discover that both outbreaks have the same cause, the mysterious Compound G developed by a company called Alaxon. The h