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    Resistant: A Novel
    Resistant: A Novel
    Resistant: A Novel
    Audiobook12 hours

    Resistant: A Novel

    Written by Michael Palmer

    Narrated by Robert Petkoff

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    They kill without conscience or remorse. They are the most ruthless enemy we have ever faced. And they are one millionth our size...Prepare to be shocked-and mesmerized-by Resistant, the latest novel of thrilling medical suspense from New York Times bestselling author Michael Palmer.

    When Dr. Lou Welcome fills in last minute for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta he brings along his best friend, Cap Duncan. But an accident turns tragic when Cap injures his leg while running. Surgeons manage to save the leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating Cap alive from the inside out. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, a teenaged girl is fighting for her life against the same bacteria. The germ is resistant to any known antibiotic and the government scientist tasked with finding a cure has been kidnapped. Turning to the Centers for Disease Control for help, Lou Welcome uncovers a link to a shadowy group known as One Hundred Neighbors that has infiltrated our society and is using our health institutions as hostages. Like the deadly germs they can unleash, One Hundred Neighbors will stop at nothing to further their agenda. From the hospital corridors where anything you touch can mean your end, to the top corridors of power in this race against time, Lou must stop an epidemic, save his best friend, and face even his own most terrifying demons.

    From the New York Times bestselling author comes another heart stopping thriller that will make you look at the world around you in a new and frightening way.

    "When you open the pages of a Michael Palmer novel, you know you are in the hands of a pro." -The Huffington Post

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateMay 20, 2014
    ISBN9781427239440
    Resistant: A Novel
    Author

    Michael Palmer

    Michael Palmer (1942-2013) wrote internationally bestselling novels of medical suspense, including The First Patient, The Second Opinion, The Last Surgeon, A Heartbeat Away, Oath of Office and Political Suicide. His book Extreme Measures was adapted into a movie starring Hugh Grant and Gene Hackman. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. Palmer earned his bachelor's degree at Wesleyan University, and he attended medical school at Case Western Reserve University. He trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals. He spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine. In addition to his writing, Palmer was an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society Physician Health Services, devoted to helping physicians troubled by mental illness, physical illness, behavioral issues, and chemical dependency. He lived in eastern Massachusetts.

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    • 4/5
      Listening to the audio version of Resistant was very enjoyable by Michael but probably not for the reason that you would think. I have been a fan for many years and then for some reason had stopped reading his books. What did not work for me in this story was the group of characters of the far right extremists named 100 Neighbors. They were just too pure evil. I would have liked to have heard some redeeming quality about that group. Their goal was to get "entitlements", Medicare and Social Security revoked so that employment would increase and the federal deficit decrease. That got my ire up! I have Medicare and receive Social Security checks, This extremist group hoped to gain leverage by creating a "Doomsday Day Germ aka Janus virus that was related to the flesh eating horror that we currently have but also resistant to modern medicine. The best characters to me were Lou Welcome from the previous books in this series, his best friend, "Cap" Duncan who gets exposed to the terrible germ and Humphrey Mills,a pharmacy worker. Humphrey Mills captured my heart as soon as I heard his voice. The reader of this audio is Robert Petkoff. I applaud him for his expertise with portraying the characters voice. Humphrey has a special way of talking because of his disability of cerebral palsy. Humphrey sounded exactly like my true life friend with the same disability. He has sort of a Clark Kent/Superman character. The Clark Kent is the one that people think of him as only the job that he has and also think of him as not being intelligent. The Superman part of his character is actually the true Humphrey with gigantic intellect. So I had fun picturing my real life friend in this role. I was so happy that the author did not kill him off or have him turn bad.I would recommend this as a medical thriller but also as a book to make people of their own preconceived notions of a person with cerebral palsy.
    • 3/5
      When the Doomsday bacteria threatens the life of his friend and mentor, Dr. Lou Welcome gets involved in ways unimaginable to this ER doc. Good story but not Palmer's best writing.
    • 3/5
      Dr. Lou Welcome is sent to Atlanta to give a presentation at a medical convention. He's doing this for his boss who hopes to become president of this organization. Lou's boss can't give the presentation himself due to his wife's health.Lou brings his best friend and AA sponsor, Cap Duncan on the trip. When there they go running and a freak accident lands Cap in the hospital. At the hospital he contracts a deadly infection for which there is no cure. This flesh eating bacteria is dubbed the Doomsday Germ by the media.When Lou returns to work, he is fired for not giving the presentation. He tells his boss he was caring for Cap but his boss says Lou was at fault for going running and the cause of being fired is dereliction of duty. Although unhappy with the turn of events, it gives Lou time to return to Atlanta and care for Cap.Doctors tell him the infection has spread and they have to amputate Cap's leg. Lou meets a pharmacist, Humphrey Mills who suggests a surgeon. Humphrey is an intelligent man who suffers from cerebral palsy and is often overlooked and unappreciated at the hospital. He asks Lou to help in his lab as Humphrey is very knowledgable about the virus and has an avid interest in microbiology.There is a group of terrorists who are wealthy men. They want to eliminate entitlement programs such as social security, medicare and welfare. They plan to obtain the cure for the Doomsday Germ and blackmail the government into eliminating the entitlement programs in return for a cure of the disease.There are good characters who are well described and sympathetic, the evil characters are very evil and we hope they can be stopped before reaching their goal.The novel is fast moving and suspenseful. The author died at the end of last year and his family completed the novel. I didn't think the conclusion was up to the previous Lou Welcome novels, perhaps because it wasn't the work of the author.
    • 3/5
      I keep forgetting that I've read Michael Palmer and that I don't really like his writing. The ideas are usually good, but the writing is campy and that's not what I'm into. This one was better than the last one (now that I've searched my library and reread my other reviews of his work). In this novel, Dr. Lou Welcome, a case manager for doctors who are recovering from drug addiction and a recovering drug addict himself, travels to a conference in Atlanta to fill in for his boss. He brings his best friend Cap Duncan, and Cap ends up in the hospital after a serious accident. At the hospital, Cap is infected with a deadly bacteria with no known cure. Lou will go to any lengths to save his friend's life.
    • 3/5
      It has been a few books since I have read anything by Mr. Palmer. His latest and last one sounded like a winner. I am sorry that I did not read more of his books while he was alive. This book was a good, quick read. The idea of a bacterial flesh-eating virus is scary. So scary that I was talking to my co-worker about this book and told her that if this ever happened to me that I would just want to be put out of my misery. I would not want the doctors cutting of my limbs one at a time. So the medical aspect of this story was creepy. However the political aspect of the story, I thought was just alright. I went through the motions of reading this book. None of the characters really jumped off the pages at me. Again though, Mr. Palmer does know how to tell a good story that does leave me the reader thinking about what I just read.
    • 4/5
      Michael Palmer wrote about what he knew (he died of a heart attack in November 2013). Palmer was an emergency room physician who battled and controlled addiction problems.In “Resistant,” Dr. Lou Welcome was an emergency room physician who became a director of an addiction program for physicians. Dr. Welcome suffered from drug and alcohol addiction, which he controlled through a sponsor and a ten-step program.The addiction program became an integral part of this mystery/thriller plot. Dr. Welcome’s sponsor has a running accident, resulting in a compound fracture that becomes infected with deadly, hospital-acquired, flesh-eating bacteria. The bacterium is drug-resistant. The remainder of the story concerns a type of germ warfare by a group (cult) of terrorists and the race by researchers to find a means of conquering the deadly bacteria.Palmer took bits of reality and interwove them to create a gripping medical-mystery thriller. Drug-resistant, virulent bacteria do exist, although cases of necrotizing fasciitis are extremely rare. The bacteria are not really flesh-eating, but their result is the same. They release toxins that cause the destruction of skin and muscle. Treatment is debridement (removal of the infected tissue), amputation and hyperbaric oxygen. “Resistant” echos the story of Georgia student Aimee Copeland. In 2012, she suffered a zip line accident causing a gash in her leg. Antibiotic-resistant, “flesh-eating” entered the wound. Treatment resulted in the lost of one leg, a foot, and both hands.Palmer writes great medical mystery thrillers, and I have read all of them. Sure, there are good guys, bad guys, conspiracy and kind, brave heros with flaws. Call it formulaic, but it works for me. I found “resistant” to be a real page-turner and a satisfying read.