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Michael Palmer and Robin Cook are the kings of medical thrillers. Robin Cook arrived first and Michael Palmer came in after him, and some say surpassed him in offering his readers an engaging, suspenseful, and tense novel. Medical thrillers differ from crime fiction in that the heroes and generally also the villains are medical personnel and institutions. The stories describe medical situations in a non-gory fashion, usually with current social medical problems being the prime focus.

This tale begins with a sadistic killer-for-hire who specializes in murders that appear to be suicides. He mockingly calls them "non-murders." He offers a nurse a choice of either killing herself or see her beloved sister killed horribly and painfully, and then be brutally murdered herself.

We meet a doctor, Nick Garrity, the hero of the tale, who behaved heroically and with compassion in Afghanistan, and is called Dr. Nick Fury by his friends, after a comic book hero. He runs a mobile medical unit with an unusually compassionate nurse, who has a computer genius foster child. The unit helps people in need who are unable to use a hospital.

Garrity suffers from post-combat-stress because he saw a suicide bomber kill his fiancée and two dozen other hospital personnel. He was saved during the bombing by a friend who disappears after returning to the US. Garrity tries to find him. He discovers that another ex-soldier disappeared in the same way, both saying that they were recalled by the military before they were last seen. The person in charge at the VA, the second villain in the thriller, after the sadistic killer-for-hire, refuses to help Garrity locate either man, just as he had been refusing benefits to soldiers who fought for their county in Afghanistan and are now, like Garrity, suffering post-stress-syndrome. But Garrity finds the other ex-soldier who, surprisingly, acts like a zombie. Two other medical institutions are soon revealed as third and forth villains.

We meet Jillian Coates, the very attractive and resourceful sister of the murdered nurse, who is also a nurse, and who is convinced that her sister was murdered. Julian finds many Nick Fury comic books in her murdered sister's home and is puzzled about their significance. She goes on an all-night call-in radio program and tells her sister's story, and her home is burnt down the next day. However, an ex-soldier who had served with Garrity, who heard Jillian's broadcast, tells her that Garrity had been called Nick Fury.

The sadistic killer sees Jillian and is attracted to her. He decides that he needs to have sex with her. So begins this marvelously constructed and engrossing tale.
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