- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Dutton (May 20 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0525940936
- ISBN-13: 978-0525940937
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 590 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,566,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Library Journal
With her younger sister dying from an Ebola-like virus, top forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock is under enough stress. Then she is called in for an opinion on the murder of wealthy William Arthur Warren. As Blalock and Los Angeles Homicide Lieutenant Jack Sinclair begin to investigate, they discover that Warren's newly transplanted liver was diseased. In due course, the skeleton of another murdered man is found in the hills above Donors International, which provided Warren's new liver. Joanna consults on this case, too, and soon attracts the attention of the killers. Goldberg (Deadly Care, LJ 3/1/96) has a solid story but fails to allow enough time for character development and abruptly catapults the reader into a shockingly stark climax. However, as a professor at UCLA's Medical Center, he certainly knows how to bring authenticity to his novels. The Joanna Blalock series is a good one to hand to readers of Patricia Cornwell; this new addition is recommended for most fiction collections.?Jo Ann Vicarel, Cleveland Heights-University Heights P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
In Goldberg's fourth medical thriller starring forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock, the devil is Donors International, a widespread organ-transplant company that harvests hearts, livers, and other organs from around the world to save the lives and health of those wealthy enough to pay its high prices. Memorial Hospital is the site of the unexplained deaths of two wealthy men who had received livers from DI. These livers become surrounded with cysts of unexplained origin, cysts that later serve as clues for the beautiful, quick-thinking Joanna. Jake Sinclair, a detective and Joanna's former lover, gets in the thick of the subsequent action, and a subplot involves Joanna's younger sister, Kate, an archaeologist brought back from a site in Guatemala with an almost fatal, unknown viral infection. Thanks to his clear style and storytelling ability, this is another bell ringer for Goldberg, who, teaching and practicing physician that he is, appends to his yarn a note pointing out how desperate the real organ-transplant situation currently is. William Beatty
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Could Have Been Better,
By A. Vegan (Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Deadly Harvest (Hardcover)
When I began reading the Joanna Blalock series, I was instantly hooked. The first book dealt with a serial killer at the hospital and the story kept me on the edge throughout the entire book. But it seems that each book after that has gone downhill. They all start off as medical thrillers but end up more like a detetive novel. Deadly Harvest was no different. But the story has been done over and over by numerous authors. Goldberg also fails to allow enough time for character development and abruptly catapults you into a shockingly stark climax.
4.0 out of 5 stars
wow!,
By "truthandjustice" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Deadly Harvest (Paperback)
I haven't read a lot of medical thrillers that I enjoyed this much. There is a lot that goes on in this book that keeps you interested to the end. It starts out with the prologue where it tells of a man positioned with a rifle up on a hill trying to get a doctor in his scope's sight so that he can kill him because he feels they are responsible for his sister's death. The surveilance on the Women's Reproductive Clinic is about to bring fruition when the sniper himself is attacked from behind and killed. Ten years later his body is found in a grave that has been washed away to reveal his skeleton.Lori is young and new to the coroners job and because of her newness it is suggested that they get Joanna Blalock, a pathologist, in to help in the investigation. Joanna has troubles of her own, her sister, Kate, along with others has been flown to her hospital the victim of a virulent virus that is life threatening. It looks like she may need a liver transplant. We have the murder of a couple of millionaires who both had liver transplants and who both, when examined, had developed cysts in the livers they received. We have the murders of murderers and all sorts of mysteries to keep us interested- like where did the livers come from that were bad and why did they develop the cysts and is there something sinister about the organ donar company? Questions and mystery until the end of the book. I enjoyed the book and would read more books written by this author.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Waaay out there,
By Frank (Stockton CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Deadly Harvest (Paperback)
*spoilers*The bizarre plot is that incredibly rich men screen their prospective wives for genetic compatibility, and then use surrogate mothers to birth children which will be close genetic matches, available to be killed to provide organ transplants for the father, if needed at a future date. The children are raised "like animals" under lock and key in a mountain-top compound in Los Angeles County. Meanwhile, the doctor in charge of this compound -- which is owned by organized crime, no less -- maintains his job as a respected surgeon at Joanna Blalock's hospital. The book opens with an attempted sniping by a man with a Ruger Mini-14 shooting .50 caliber bullets. However, the Ruger Mini-14 shoots .223 caliber bullets. There are almost as many murders in this book as there are references to how beautiful Joanna is. This book has few redeeming qualities; it's a definite pass.
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