Hocus Corpus

Hocus Corpus
ISBN-10
0739404024
ISBN-13
9780739404027
Category
Dead
Pages
301
Language
English
Published
1999
Author
James Tucker

Description

Dr. Jack Merlin knows that patient fatalities are a fact of life. But when four people die after successful routine operations, he begins to wonder. The only thing the victims have in common is the same insurance carrier, but that fact doesn't explain how or why each of them was infected with a lethal virus.

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