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Bezig met laden... Resistant (2014)door Michael Palmer
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. "Resistant" ties its characters together by using bioterrorism to unite various subplots. The book's grammatical and vocabulary components are simple leading to quick comprehension and a fast paced read. In a nutshell, the good guys try to stop a well financed, secret society from using bio-weapons to achieve control. Personality and background information are presented in such a way that leaves you with a smooth feel for the characters. The various characters weave in and out of the plot nicely. The author only deviates from pace when describing physical aspects of disease and injury. If you're eating, you might want to put the book aside or skip those pages. Gruesome. Some description is warranted, even desirable as a means to raise anxiety and impart a sense of urgency, but Palmer goes overboard. All in all ... it's a good read and worth the time. 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. 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. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Dr. Lou Welcome (3)
Fiction.
Thriller.
HTML: They fight without conscience or remorse. Their only job is to kill. They are the most ruthless enemy we have ever faced. And they are one millionth our size. 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." â??The Huffington Post Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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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. ( )