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The Compton Effect
A MEDICAL CHAMBER OF HORRORS
The jaundiced man babbling wildly in Russian…the woman caged in bacteria-free isolation as hideous blotches disfigured her flesh…the three startlingly beautiful, incredibly efficient nurses who had been hired seemingly from nowhere…the pair of blackmailing CIA agents who made the hospital chief their helpless puppet.
What part did they play in the malaise of violence and terror infecting every corner and corridor of Eastside Manhattan Medical Center, from its shadowy underground storage maze to its brightly lit operating theaters?
The answer lay in a horrifying message that became all too clear all too late…
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DOCTORS IN THE DARK
Alan Hammerman and Natalie Kern. A pair of dedicated doctors involved in a love-hate relationship with one another, and in an unending battle to save lives in the overburdened New York hospital where they worked.
Now more and more cases were arriving that neither could diagnose. Men and women in states of near-death from a cause as mysterious as it was menacing.
The puzzle was agonizing. The truth was more nightmarish still, as it became clear that the hospital was being transformed by a monstrous Soviet power in a chamber of medical horrors —and the staff had a choice of being either executioners or victims….
THE COMPTON EFFECT
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
LESLIE ALAN HORVITZ, a graduate of Brown University and former editor with Fawcett Books, is also the author of SUPERSTAR and THE JERUSALEM CONSPIRACY. He is currently a freelance writer and lives in Manhattan.
H. HARRIS GERHARD, M.D., a graduate of the Yale Medical School, completed his residency at Bellevue General Hospital. He is married and practices in New Jersey.
The jaundiced man babbling wildly in Russian…the woman caged in bacteria-free isolation as hideous blotches disfigured her flesh…the three startlingly beautiful, incredibly efficient nurses who had been hired seemingly from nowhere…the pair of blackmailing CIA agents who made the hospital chief their helpless puppet.
What part did they play in the malaise of violence and terror infecting every corner and corridor of Eastside Manhattan Medical Center, from its shadowy underground storage maze to its brightly lit operating theaters?
The answer lay in a horrifying message that became all too clear all too late…
————
DOCTORS IN THE DARK
Alan Hammerman and Natalie Kern. A pair of dedicated doctors involved in a love-hate relationship with one another, and in an unending battle to save lives in the overburdened New York hospital where they worked.
Now more and more cases were arriving that neither could diagnose. Men and women in states of near-death from a cause as mysterious as it was menacing.
The puzzle was agonizing. The truth was more nightmarish still, as it became clear that the hospital was being transformed by a monstrous Soviet power in a chamber of medical horrors —and the staff had a choice of being either executioners or victims….
THE COMPTON EFFECT
————
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
LESLIE ALAN HORVITZ, a graduate of Brown University and former editor with Fawcett Books, is also the author of SUPERSTAR and THE JERUSALEM CONSPIRACY. He is currently a freelance writer and lives in Manhattan.
H. HARRIS GERHARD, M.D., a graduate of the Yale Medical School, completed his residency at Bellevue General Hospital. He is married and practices in New Jersey.
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300 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published July 1, 1980
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Leslie Alan Horvitz
33 books9 followersLeslie Alan Horvitz is a NY Times Best Selling author of over 31 novels and several works of non-fiction with editions of his books published around the world.
Leslie's most recent novel is medical thriller SynBio with his other books including The Memory Hole, The Donors, Double Blinded, The Dying and Causes Unknown.
Leslie is also the author of several works of nonfiction, most recently The Essential Book of Weather Folklore, The Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide, The Weather Tracker and Night Sky Tracker Eureka: Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed the World.
To help write his medical thriller books, Leslie has researched epidemics ranging from Ebola and HIV in Zaire to Lassa Fever in Sierra Leone and Hantan Fever in China.
Leslie lives in New York City.
Leslie's most recent novel is medical thriller SynBio with his other books including The Memory Hole, The Donors, Double Blinded, The Dying and Causes Unknown.
Leslie is also the author of several works of nonfiction, most recently The Essential Book of Weather Folklore, The Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide, The Weather Tracker and Night Sky Tracker Eureka: Scientific Breakthroughs That Changed the World.
To help write his medical thriller books, Leslie has researched epidemics ranging from Ebola and HIV in Zaire to Lassa Fever in Sierra Leone and Hantan Fever in China.
Leslie lives in New York City.
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August 23, 2016
Was just happy to get through this read. This book is not something I would reread (in a perfect world with unlimited time, to do unlimited things). If there was one clearly distinguished deterrent to this book, it is that most of the setting takes place within the confines of one hospital. 300 pages inside of the same hospital. There were too many instances where patients would die in unrealistic ways. The plot itself is not highly-believable either, as it portrays various agents freely walking in-and-out of the confines of the hospital, just just as they please, without any need for identification or any repercussions for their heinous actions committed. As I'm writing this review, this book has been in existence for over 36 years but I see no reviews for it on any site, well-recognized or otherwise. What drew me into this book was the title and moreover, the look of the front cover. Being the linguaphile that I am, I surprisingly noticed there were some typos which were unnoticed by the editor. If there were an upside to reading this book, it would be that you can be one of a handful of people that have read it, over the span of nearly forty years. It's not like this book hasn't been around, it's eleven years older than I am. There wasn't anything about this book that grasped my attention or mesmerized me in any way. Read this book if time isn't an object.
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