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Miracle Cure
Written by Harlan Coben
Narrated by Scott Brick
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Start Listening- Publisher:
- Brilliance Audio
- Released:
- Sep 27, 2011
- ISBN:
- 9781455825608
- Format:
- Audiobook (abridged)
Description
They're one of the country's most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York's hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. Their family and social connections tie them to the highest echelons of the political, medical, and sports worlds-threads that will tangle them up in one of the most controversial and deadly issues of our time.
In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a divisive and devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. One by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer. And now Michael has been diagnosed with the disease. There's only one cure, but many ways to die.…
"Coben adroitly applies the fundamental rules of thrillerdom (offer a raft of potential villains; keep the action moving at breakneck speed) in this highly entertaining novel…a page-turner!" -Publishers Weekly
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Miracle Cure
Written by Harlan Coben
Narrated by Scott Brick
Description
They're one of the country's most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York's hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. Their family and social connections tie them to the highest echelons of the political, medical, and sports worlds-threads that will tangle them up in one of the most controversial and deadly issues of our time.
In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a divisive and devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. One by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer. And now Michael has been diagnosed with the disease. There's only one cure, but many ways to die.…
"Coben adroitly applies the fundamental rules of thrillerdom (offer a raft of potential villains; keep the action moving at breakneck speed) in this highly entertaining novel…a page-turner!" -Publishers Weekly
- Publisher:
- Brilliance Audio
- Released:
- Sep 27, 2011
- ISBN:
- 9781455825608
- Format:
- Audiobook (abridged)
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Miracle Cure was that one.
This is Coben's second novel and in the edition I have he goes as far as to add a disclaimer at the beginning that states this is far from the standard that existing fans would expect and that perhaps not the place to start for new readers either. He does however acknowledge that these were his beginnings as a writer.
We all start our journeys somewhere and this novel is part of the journey that makes Coben the writer he is today. For that reason I made the effort to follow it to the end. Its hard to know whether my opinion would have been different had I not had later books to compare it to.
In general this took me longer to read than a HC book would, the writing style a bit more clumsy and not as well edited as his later works so it just didn't read as well.
The story follows a doctor on his quest to find a cure for the AIDS virus, the people trying to stop him and the normal murder, mayhem and twists that are Coben's trademark style. It is important to place yourself back in the early 90's when a lot less was known about the AIDS virus and fear of contracting it was rampant. Looking at the story with modern eyes will almost certainly impacts the way the story is viewed.
You can definitely see the beginnings of what would become a great career in the 'Thriller and Suspense' genre
Michael is moved to the HIV clinic to be treated. Three patients from the clinic have been brutally murdered, and one of the doctor's has died from an apparent suicide.
Doctors are vying for more funding, an overzealous evangelist is calling the AIDs virus a sign from God that end of times are near, and all is not what it seems. Family members can't be trusted. Friends aren't really friends.
Recommended.