Writer and physician Michael Palmer is the February 2012 Author of the Month at VJ Books with the release of his new medical and political thriller — Oath of Office.
New York Times bestselling author Michael Palmer has hit international bestseller lists for each book he’s ever written. He returns in top form with his 17th medical suspense novel, Oath of Office. Compelling, engaging, and with in-depth characters, Oath of Office is sure to please.
About Oath of Office
What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage?
When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself.
The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Meacham years before as a counselor after John’s medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and deserved to be practicing medicine and fought hard for his license to be restored. After hearing the news of the violent outburst, Lou is in shock like everyone else, but mostly he’s incredulous. And when he begins (more…)
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Signed 1st editions of A Heartbeat Away by Michael Palmer are now available at VJ Books!
Hello again~
You’ll want to check out our recent notice –
Nearly 25 years ago we first met Alex Delaware, and he returns in his 23rd mystery in Jonathan Kellerman’s True Detectives. Walter Mosley launches what promises to be his best series since Easy Rawlins first appeared in 1990 with The Long Fall.
Readers of historical adventure writers James Rollins, Raymond Khoury, Steve Berry and Clive Cussler take notice of Alexander Cipher, an exciting debut by newcomer Will Adams.
Ace Atkins brings the 1921 Fatty Arbuckle case alive in Devil’s Garden, and Philip Kerr’s private detective Berney Gunther travels to 1950s Argentina in A Quiet Flame. He delivers compelling portraits of real characters such as Eva and Juan Peron, Adolf Eichmann, and Otto Skorzeny in a novel that ends up asking some highly provocative questions about the true extent of Argentina’s Nazi collaboration and anti-Semitism under the Perons.
Today’s selection is rounded out by two recent finds: Michael Palmer’s 2007 bestseller, The Fifth Vial and Manda Scott‘s first title in her bestselling Boudica series Dreaming The Eagle. Quantities are limited on both, so don’t delay.
Plenty to consider here!
John and Virginia
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Michael Stephen Palmer, M.D. was born October 9, 1942, in Springfield, Massachusetts, and is the author of 13 novels, often called the Medical thrillers series.
He graduated from Wesleyan University and trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and is now an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s physician health program. Before he began work on his first published novel The Sisterhood, about euthanasia, Palmer was practicing treatment of drug addiction. His first book was rejected, but The Sisterhood, in which nurses aiming to end human suffering kill the patient, made the New York Times bestseller list – something repeated by all his subsequent novels to this day.
Side Effects, his second published work, was about the testing of unapproved drugs on a patient in Nazi Germany, but his most famous novel proved to be 1991′s Extreme Measures, in which a promising young doctor is threatened by a hospital elite after discovering the body’s criminal acts. Natural Causes (1994) is about a holistic doctor who prescribes medicine that actually kills patients, whilst Miracle Cure is about a drug for heart disease that actually is very dangerous because of its side effects.
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Michael Palmer wears two hats – bestelling author and doctor (he is associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s physician health program). While a premed major at Wesleyan University, he got a “G” on his first freshman English paper (“as in A, B, C, etc.” he writes on his Web site). His revenge? In one of his books, he named the villain after that professor. SMP reports 510,000 copies in print of The First Patient.
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(Publisher’s Weekly, Dec. 8 )
In this routine medical thriller from bestseller Palmer (The First Patient), Dr. Thea Sperelakis, an idealist who’s been working for Doctors Without Borders in the Congo, rushes back to Boston after learning her physician father, Petros, an intimidating figure known as the Lion, is close to death, the victim of a hit-and-run. Thea faces one challenge after another, including having to resuscitate Petros when his heart stops beating. Her brilliant if socially challenged older brother, Dimitri, adds to her anxiety with his computer reconstruction of the accident, which indicates the driver struck Petros deliberately. When Thea manages to communicate haltingly with her father, she suspects he’s stumbled on some medical fraud that’s made him the target of those behind the fraud. Aided by the requisite hunky ex-cop turned hospital security guard, Thea doggedly seeks out the truth. Robin Cook fans have seen all this before and in more engaging form. (Feb.)
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