Patrick Lynch

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Missouri

Surgeon Marcus Ford's trauma unit at the Willowbrook Medical Center is on the front line, fighting diseases that rage through South Central, L.A.'s violent, poverty-stricken inner city. But suddenly Ford finds himself battling an insidious new enemy. Patients brought in to the emergency room begin to develop routine infections, which suddenly bloom out of control. None of the drugs in the vast arsenal of modern medicine can check the symptoms...or prevent the bacteria from multiplying. As more and more cases appear, and infected patients throughout L.A. start to die, Ford knows he is witnessing the onset of a mass epidemic--a modern-day plague. Then the horror strikes home. Ford's thirteen-year-old daughter contracts the life-threatening infection. Her only hope of survival is Omega, a radical, genetically engineered antibiotic that is only rumored to exist. As Ford's search for the phantom drug becomes a frantic race against time, his sole ally is Helen Wray, a pharmaceutical executive who wants to find Omega for reasons of her own. But when Ford becomes a prime suspect in a series of suspicious deaths, he realizes that he can trust no one...not his fellow doctors, not a government seeking to regulate the use of antibiotics, not even the enigmatic Helen. Caught in the middle of a war where powerful men play God and greed can determine who lives and who dies, Ford knows that the only way to save his daughter--and countless others--is to take on the health-care industry itself. What he uncovers is more horrifying than he could ever have imagined. Meticulously researched, unrelentingly suspenseful, bestselling author Patrick Lynch gives us a gripping and unsettling medicalthriller that brings our most frightening health care nightmares as close as tomorrow's headlines. Highlights of Campbell Scott's career include the films The Sheltering Sky, Dead Again, Singles, Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, Big Night, which he co-directed, and Daytrippers. He has also starred on Broadway in an acclaimed production of Long Day's Journey Into Night. He can also be heard on the audio production of The Burning Man, also available on BDD Audiocassette.

Omega

2635d512-cc05-45a7-a76d-b6f3f2d78e69-1

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

A virulent bacteria resistant to all known antibiotics is killing off patients in a Los Angeles hospital trauma unit. When a unit doctor's teenage daughter is suddenly stricken with the infection, he finds himself racing against time to hunt down Omega'an antibiotic inaccessible to the public but rumored to fight the plague'and battle a health care system determined to withhold the drug that could save countless lives.

Category - Fiction / Suspense & Thrillers

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Good

Listed - 7 months ago

Views - 3

Ships From - Missouri

Est. Publication Date - Sep 1997

Additional Information

Omega

ISBN: 9780525943273

Publisher Description

Tags

Omega

By:

$5.00

Meet the seller

Discover more

Omega

By: Patrick Lynch

More from this seller

Additional titles by Patrick Lynch

'Omega' readers also enjoyed:

Recently Viewed

Browse by categories

Category - Fiction / Suspense & Thrillers

Format - Hardcover

Condition - Good

Listed - 7 months ago

Views - 3

Ships From - Missouri

Est. Publication Date - Sep 1997

Additional Information

Omega

ISBN: 9780525943273

Publisher Description

Tags

Omega

By:

$5.00

Meet the seller

Discover more

Omega

By: Patrick Lynch

More from this seller

Additional titles by Patrick Lynch

'Omega' readers also enjoyed:

Recently Viewed