Harvest

Acclaimed to be the best Medical Thriller since Coma (James B. Patterson, author of Jack and Jill). The New York Times Bestselling Novel of Medical Suspense. (STORYLINE) 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 46-yr-old woman to whom the hospital had cross-matched it. Then a new heart suddenly appears. The woman's transplant is completed, and Abby makes a terrible discovery. On a ship anchored in the waters of Boston Harbor, a final, grisly discovery lies waiting. (USA TODAY says) Harvest will make your heart skip a beat!When Robin Cook wrote Coma in 1977, the idea of hospital patients being incubated for their vital organs sounded like science fiction. Twenty years later, this gripping thriller about a thriving international black market in human hearts, livers and kidneys could come from tomorrow's "Nightline." Author Gerritsen was an internist before she switched her energies to writing, and her experience shows in every scene. When young surgical resident Dr. Abby DiMatteo assists at her first "harvest" (the removal of living organs from a patient declared legally brain dead) at Boston's posh Bayside Hospital, "she felt vaguely nauseated by the whine of the blade, the smell of bone dust," neither of which seem to bother the veterans. It's obviously a personal memory being mined for good fictional purposes. (Gerritsen wrote paperback romance novels before Harvest: Check out her Keeper of the Bride and Thief of Hearts.)