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  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780553276183
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $17.99

Side Effects

a heart-stoppingly tense and compelling medical thriller that will get right under your skin





This compelling thriller from the author of Silent Treatment is available for the first time in the UK.

“Has everything—a terrifying plot . . . breakneck pace . . . vividly drawn characters.”—John Saul

Kate Bennet. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Until one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate's closest friend.
Soon it will threaten Kate's marriage.
Her sanity.
Her life.

Kate has uncovered a horrifying secret. Important people will stop at nothing to protect it. It is a terrifying medical discovery. And its roots lie in one of the greatest evils in the history of humankind.

  • Published: 31 March 1999
  • ISBN: 9780553276183
  • Imprint: Bantam Dell
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $17.99

About the author

Michael Palmer

Michael Palmer, M.D., trained in internal medicine at Boston City and Massachusetts General Hospitals, spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and was an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program. He wrote over ten books which were translated into thirty-five languages. He died in October 2013.

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