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Tainted

Autor Ross Pennie
en Limba Engleză Hardback – apr 2009
In an affluent city perched on Ontario's Niagara Escarpment, residents begin turning up on the pathologist's autopsy table with what looks like epidemic mad cow disease. Zol Szabo, a public-health doctor and former chef, and Hamish Wakefield, a young infectious-diseases specialist, must trace the epidemic to its source while dodging the deadly prions that appear to have contaminated almost everything in the supermarket. Things spin out of control and more lives are threatened when a government-appointed investigator pulls rank, hijacks the investigation, and allows his inflated ego to supersede common sense. Incidents of contamination of the food supply are featured almost weekly in the news. In Tainted, the clock is ticking to discover the source of the disease before it can spread, while navigating the political minefield of the hospital and the media. A suspenseful and vexing medical thriller, Tainted comments on the vagaries of modern medicine, and explores the complexities of relationships between men: fathers and sons, colleagues and subordinates, gay men and their lovers. Tainted is a medical thriller that illustrates the potential disastrous consequences of misplacing our trust in those who manufacture our food and our pharmaceuticals.
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ISBN-13: 9781550228601
ISBN-10: 1550228609
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 160 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: ECW Press

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Dr. Zol Szabo chose public health for its noble ideals and predictable hours. He never expected to be hounded by the Prime Minister's office, roughed up by the RCMP or exterminated by one of Hamilton's gangster families. When a spate of food poisonings strikes Camelot Lodge, Zol assembles his investigative team - but the epidemic's source proves elusive and the death count rises. It takes Camelot's observant octogenarians, spearheaded by Zol's grandfather, to expose the deaths for what they are: murder.