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Book Review of Harvest

Harvest
reviewed HARVEST, by Tess Gerritsen on + 17 more book reviews


Medical thriller, medical suspense

FROM THE COVER: "Boston's Bayside Hospital is a long way from Dr. Abby DiMatteo's humble roots, and she's elated when their elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit. But an anguished, life-and-death decision soon jeopardizes her entire career. She and chief resident Vivian Chao boldly direct a crash victim's harvested heart to a dying seventeen-year-old boy--- instead of the wealthy forty-six-year-old woman to whom the hospital has cross-matched it. The repercussions cost Dr. Chao her job, and leave Abby shaken

Then a new heart suddenly appears, the woman's transplant is completed, and Abby makes a terrible discovery. The donor records have been falsified-- the new heart has not come through the proper channels. Defying Bayside Hospital's demands for silence, Abby and Vivian plunge into an investigation that reveals a lethal, unthinkable conspiracy. Every move Abby makes spawns a vicious backlash--- and on a ship anchored in the waters of Boston Harbor, a final, grisly discovery lies waiting."