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An anaesthetist gives a woman a normal injection during childbirth and she dies. The doctor is sued and criminally charged, but he skips bail and returns to the hospital to try and find out exactly what went wrong. On the run from the police, he uncovers a pattern of similar killings.

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A shaft of golden morning sunlight filtered through a window high on the wall to Jeffrey''s left and knifed down through the courtroom, hitting the paneled wail behind the judge''s bench like a spotlight.

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This is book 6 of 16 in Obras de Robin Cook. (edition-based publisher list)

Preceded by Mindbend, and followed by Coma.

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  1. Robin Cook (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Berkley Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1991
ISBN: 0425125467
Page Count: 368

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