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RISK FACTOR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: St Martin's, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A psychological thriller set in Boston - the second novel by this author who is a practising psychiatrist. SIGNED on the title page. 244 pp. ISBN: 0-312-209207.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 68377More details Price: $25.00 -
VITAL SIGNS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Medical thriller involving the world of reproductive technologies. Bibliography. 396 pp. ISBN: 0-399-135758.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 53627More details Price: $12.50 -
MORTAL FEAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Medical thriller involving DNA research, set in Boston, 364 pp. ISBN: 0-399-133186.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 47534More details Price: $12.00 -
THE TERMINAL MAN.
Edition: 2nd printing (before publication.)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972. dj. Hardcover - Another thriller on the cutting edge of medical technology - in this book, surgical-electrical mind control. Crichton's 4th book, 3rd novel (2nd under his own name.). ISBN: 0-394-447689.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (some spine slant, wear to dj at corner folds and top of spine.)
Book ID: 36316More details Price: $15.00 -
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Crichton's first book under his own name, a now classic thriller of 'the world's first space age biological emergency' as a team of scientists rush to find an antidote to a deadly unknown organism brought back to earth by a space ship. Basis for the movie of the same name. True first printings in collectable condition are rather harder to find than it might appear; since this book was a Book of the Month club selection, 'false firsts' are quite common. (This copy has the original price of 5.95 still present on the dustjacket.) References. 295 pp. Dust jacket by Paul Bacon.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (hint of spine slant, some wear to dj at ends of spine, creasing on flaps)
Book ID: 65199More details Price: $100.00 -
THE SILENT CRADLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel, a medical thriller set in Berkeley, California, by this African American author who is herself a medical doctor practicing in Berkeley. ISBN: 0-671-015133.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (some toning to the paper.)
Book ID: 25124More details Price: $15.00 -
THE EXPERIMENT.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second thriler by this Pulitzer prize winning journalist. " The discovery of a corpse with its fingerprints burned off, combines with the unexplained disappearances of people from a Southeastern island to give hints of a deadly secret scientific experiment" - an experiment gone wrong. 421 pp. ISBN: 0-525945172.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 80318More details Price: $18.00 -
LIE STILL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Morrow (imprint of Harper Collins), (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first novel by this prominent heart surgeon, a medical thriller set in a small town hospital in Arizona. SIGNED on the title page. 372 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0505540.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 60665More details Price: $30.00 -
HARVEST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel by this former doctor - a medical thriller revolving around organ donations. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-671-553011.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 39212More details Price: $25.00 -
BODY DOUBLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Medical thriller featuring Boston medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. Isles finds herself performing an autopsy on a woman who is a "dead ringer" for herself and dna evidence reveals that it is her twin sister. Stephen King called her books 'an automatic must-read in my house...[she is] even better than Crichton.'ISIGNED on the title page. 339 pp. ISBN: 0-345-458931.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75059More details Price: $30.00 -
GRAVITY.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 74986More details Price: $30.00 -
HARVEST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel by this former doctor - a medical thriller revolving around organ donations. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-671-553011.
Condition: Good in a near fine dust jacket. (peeled spot and whiteout on front endpaper, tape ghosts on boards.)
Book ID: 39875More details Price: $20.00 -
VANISH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller by this former doctor, set in Boston, and featuring Detective Jane Rizzoli. Stephen King called her books 'an automatic must-read in my house...[she is] even better than Crichton.' SIGNED on the title page. Winner of the Nero Award. 336 pp. ISBN: 0-345-476972.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 51323More details Price: $28.50 -
HARVEST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel by this former doctor - a medical thriller revolving around organ donations. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-671-553011.
Condition: Good in a very good dust jacket. (staining to outer edges of textblock)
Book ID: 65745More details Price: $21.50 -
THE KEEPSAKE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Boston, featuring medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli.SIGNED on the title page. 349 pp. ISBN: 978-0345497628.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 65748More details Price: $28.50 -
DIE AGAIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Ballantine, (2014.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Thriller set in Botswana, where all except one member of a wilderness safari are murdered and in Boston, where a big game hunter and taxidermist is found gutted and hung. Features medical examiner Maura Isles and homicide detective Jane Rizzoli. SIGNED on the title page. 320 pp. ISBN: 978-0345543851.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 75208More details Price: $30.00 -
HARVEST.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Highly praised first novel by this former doctor - a medical thriller revolving around organ donations. SIGNED on the title page. 344 pp. ISBN: 0-671-553011.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 75015More details Price: $30.00 -
HEAT SHOCK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2003.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Medical thriller by this award-winning African-American writer (winner of the Chester Himes Award and author of the Denver bail bondsman CJ Floyd mystery series.) As a professor of pathology, this is an area about which Greer can write knowledgeably. Features an interesting new heroine: Dr. Carmen Nguyen, half black and half Vietnamese, who reluctantly agrees to the dying request of Luke Redstone, an aging ex-miner and breeding of fighting cocks, who contracted a rare cancer while living in the yellow-cake hills of Colorado. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7536.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 60520More details Price: $27.50 -
HEAT SHOCK.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Warner, (2003.). SIGNED first edition - Medical thriller by this award-winning African-American writer (winner of the Chester Himes Award and author of the Denver bail bondsman CJ Floyd mystery series.) As a professor of pathology, this is an area about which Greer can write knowledgeably. Features an interesting new heroine: Dr. Carmen Nguyen, half black and half Vietnamese, who reluctantly agrees to the dying request of Luke Redstone, an aging ex-miner and breeding of fighting cocks, who contracted a rare cancer while living in the yellow-cake hills of Colorado. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. 308 pp.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (some spotting to edges of textblock, other minor wear) Publisher's letter laid in.
Book ID: 62350More details Price: $25.00 -
HEAT SHOCK.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Warner, (2003.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Medical thriller by this award-winning African-American writer (winner of the Chester Himes Award and author of the Denver bail bondsman CJ Floyd mystery series.) As a professor of pathology, this is an area about which Greer can write knowledgeably. Features an interesting new heroine: Dr. Carmen Nguyen, half black and half Vietnamese, who reluctantly agrees to the dying request of Luke Redstone, an aging ex-miner and breeding of fighting cocks, who contracted a rare cancer while living in the yellow-cake hills of Colorado. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-89296-7536.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 37786More details Price: $16.00 -
THE TURING OPTION.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collarboration between an expert on artificial intelligence and a science fiction writer - medical thriller set in the near future - in California in 2023. 422 pp. ISBN: 0-776-515655.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 40326More details Price: $16.50 -
DO NO HARM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third thriller, set at an emergency room in Los Angeles, where a doctor must make the difficult ethical choice to care for a patient who was also a brutal assailant of the hospital staff. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0008865.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 65970More details Price: $30.00 -
DO NO HARM.
Edition: First printing.
New York: William H. Morrow, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - His third thriller, set at an emergency room in Los Angeles, where a doctor must make the difficult ethical choice to care for a patient who was also a brutal assailant of the hospital staff. SIGNED on the title page. 388 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0008865.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)
Book ID: 62453More details Price: $25.00 -
FALSE ACCUSATIONS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of psychological suspense. Dr. Madison, a Sacramento orthopedic surgeon is charged with a double homicide. Laid in is a flyer announcing an 'autograph party.'. ISBN: 0-671-02678x.
Condition: INSCRIBED by the author 'To ... it was nice meeting you! Enjoy the book.' and dated in the year of publication. Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 27876More details Price: $28.00 -
ROBERT LUDLUM'S THE HADES FACTOR.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
New York: St Martin's Griffin, (2000). SIGNED first edition - A Covert -One novel. "A homeless man in Boston, an Army Major in California and a teenage girl in Atlanta all die suddenly and painfully - each the victim of a unknown doomsday virus." The first novel in this series of international thrillers created by Ludlum and written by Lynds.SIGNED by Lynds on the title page. 432 pp. ISBN: 0-312-264372.
Condition: Good only in illustrated wrappers (usual toning to the pages, some wear to the covers)
Book ID: 62500More details Price: $20.00 -
SYMBIONT: Parasitology Book 2.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. "THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped." SIGNED on the title page. 516 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218993.
Condition: Ex-library but with very few markings (stamp on front endpaper, tape ghosts) and overall very good - tight and clean in a fine unmarked dust jacket.
Book ID: 70856More details Price: $30.00 -
SYMBIONT: Parasitology Book 2.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. "THE ENEMY IS INSIDE US. The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts, turning them into a ravenous horde." SIGNED on the title page. 516 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218993.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (some toning to the pages, but otherwise a tight, straight and clean copy)
Book ID: 80814More details Price: $45.00 -
PARASITE: Parasitology Book 1.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2013). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. Nominated for the Hugo. SIGNED on the title page. 502 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218955.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. Uncommon in the first edition and especially so signed.
Book ID: 80760More details Price: $40.00 -
PARASITE: Parasitology Book 1.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2013). First edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. Nominated for the Hugo. 502 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218924.
Condition: Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 70885More details Price: $25.00 -
PARASITE: Parasitology Book 1.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Orbit / Hachette, (2013). First edition - A technological thriller - or horror story - set in the near future, by this award-winning author. Nominated for the Hugo. 502 pp. ISBN: 978-0316218924.
Condition: Near fine in glossy red wrappers.
Book ID: 80609More details Price: $20.00