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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Great book! It has everything-ex-special Ops guy is now a pediatrician working in an ER in Los Angeles and takes on evil Big Pharma conducting illegal experiments on Indigenous people in Central American. There are strong female characters too. It was published in 2007 but really isn’t dated. Only sad thing is that the author wrote only this one novel. ( ) Setting the scene for a medical story is often difficult and unrealistic, but Philip Hawley was able to make the opening hospital scenes believable and intense when a young boy arrives with an unknown deadly illness. The web of secrets and lies creates an interesting and unforgettable story. Stigma is a first-rate medical thriller/action/adventure and I would never have guessed this was an author’s first book. Philip Hawley’s book can stand right along side books by the more “famous” authors. Each character is developed carefully so that the reader becomes involved with each of them and the story. The story doesn’t just stay in the hospital though, it travels out of the country and off on an adventure I didn’t expect. It is a good story with interesting characters, and is the type of story that will appeal to both men and women. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: In southern California, a young Mayan boy with a blue-crescent-moon tattoo on his chest dies mysteriously. In central America, a puzzling illness is spreading among tribal villages. And soon—very soon—Luke McKenna, a pediatric E.R. physician in Los Angeles, will discover the link between these events and demons from his dark past. The secrets that haunt Luke are about to pull him and the woman he loves into a terrifying house of mirrors. The realm of science and the realm of death are colliding with devastating force, and the stakes couldn't be any higher—the future of the human species. Time is running out, and only by reawakening the ghost of Luke McKenna's past can they discover the truth. .No library descriptions found. |
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