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    Isolation Ward
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    Isolation Ward

    Written by Joshua Spanogle

    Narrated by Christian Rummel

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    About this audiobook

    Straight out of today's hospitals and labs-and tomorrow's headlines-comes a frightening, scalpel-sharp thriller from medical insider Joshua Spanogle. In an astounding debut, Spanogle takes us on an all-too-real race against time…as a young doctor enters the dark side of scientific research, desperate to stop a terrifying epidemic before it is too late….

    In Baltimore's St. Raphael's Hospital, three newly admitted patients are among society's most helpless citizens: female residents of Baltimore's group homes for the mentally impaired, their bodies racked by a virus the likes of which no one at St. Raphael's has ever seen.

    Dr. Nathaniel McCormick is one of the first on the scene. A young investigator from the Centers for Disease Control, Nate is paid to explore the bizarre, the exotic, and the baffling-from superviruses to bioterrorism. But as soon as Nate begins to investigate the lives and habits of the victims, he knows something is terribly wrong. Using all his skills as a medical detective, Nate soon zeroes in on the "vector"-the one person who had sexual contact with the first victims. And when that suspect is found murdered, Nate fears that the disease he's chasing may not be an act of nature, but of man.

    With his brash style angering his superiors and fellow investigators alike, Nate turns to an old colleague and former lover, Dr. Brooke Michaels, for help. Together the two investigators follow a twisting trail of clues to a discovery that is at once groundbreaking and unspeakable. And as a circle of treachery tightens around him, Nate is about to confront the most chilling revelation of all-and a past Nate himself has been trying to escape.

    At once a taut medical thriller and a riveting psychological portrait of a young doctor on the edge, Isolation Ward is a tale of runaway tension-with a brilliant "what-if" premise that is harrowing…heartbreaking…and impossible to wrench from your imagination.


    From the Hardcover edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateFeb 28, 2006
    ISBN9780739324356
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    • 4/5
      Isolation Ward is an excellent medical thriller, on one of my favourite topics, infections diseases. It's well executed and reminds me of a combination of the best parts of Richard Preston & Robin Cook. It begins with an undetermined disease presenting in a handful of patients who happen to be from group homes of the mentally handicapped, as investigations continue it seems the common thread is an illusive man with a checkered past. The investigating doctor along with way manages to ruffle too many political feathers along the way and gets shipped out to what is meant to be a backwater to follow up a lead deemed not important. However it turns out this lead isn't as unimportant as it initially appeared.Overall, good pace, enjoyable read. Would recommend.
    • 3/5
      Medical thriller about mentally handicapped patients dying. The CDC, Nate McCormick, becomes involved in solving what is killing the people and how. Considering this was a book I picked up at a book exchange at a campground, I really found it interesting. It was a bit slow in places, and a bit technical in others, but suspenseful.
    • 3/5
      Just an okay book. I really got lost in all the medical talk and it ruin my experience. It was needed as that's what this book is all about. I just wish it had been put more in laymans terms as I pretty much skipped through those parts and ended up feeling somewhat confused because of that.
    • 3/5
      An excessive amount of science/medical terminology but the characters and plot were interesting. Still, I don't think I'll be a regular reader of Spanogle's.
    • 4/5
      Waiting on some audio books to come in that I had requested and just happen to see this one so thought I try it. I am so glad I did; very good book. Couldn't wait to finish it to see waht it was all about. Tied up all loose ends.Great book for the first time writer.
    • 5/5
      Loved it! This is his first novel but he is supposed to have another coming out in 2007. I hope I don't forget to watch for it!