The Center [Mass Market Paperback]

David Shobin (Author)

Book Description

Series: Center | Publication Date: September 15, 1997

In the most advanced hospital in the world, medical computers ensure perfect care. But machines have no scruples. No compassion. No mercy. And now they have a mind of their own.

Surgeon Chad Dunston helped create The Center, a revolutionary medical facility where computers, not humans, treat patients. Its cure rate is unequaled, its medical successes unrivaled...until a child named Christine Lassiter mysteriously dies. The girl's older sister Maxine can't get Christine's records, her body, or even her death certificate.

Maxine wants Chad Dunston to find out what happened. But the more questions Chad asks, the more dead-end answers he receives. He has only one option left: check into The Center as a patient...and enter a machine-made nightmare, where the only way out may be death.

Author of the best-selling medical thriller The Unborn, Dr. David Shobin has returned with a chilling cautionary tale about the direction of today's high-tech medicine...medical care without the caring, greed raging out of control, and deadly terror as the new specialty.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Are medical thrillers your drug of choice? If so, this scary, all-too-believable story about a high-tech hospital that operates without human intervention should hold your attention. David Shobin, who already frightened folks out of their hospital gowns with The Unborn, knows how to mix the hard facts of present-day medical life with plausible predictions about the near future. Don't give this one to convalescing friends.

Review

"A non-stop roller-coaster ride into medical terror!"-- Michael Palmer, author of Critical Judgment

"David Shobin has written a winner. The Center is top-notch edge-of-your-seat entertainment-- a thriller that only a great writer who is also a physician could have written. My pulse was still pounding hours after I finished it. This is one scary book."-- Michael Palmer, author of Critical Judgment

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; 1st edition (September 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312961677
• ISBN-13: 978-0312961671
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,193,663 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT MEDICAL THRILLER, January 20, 2000

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M. A. DELLAMARCO "kuyankee" (LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Center (Mass Market Paperback)

GREAT LEAD CHARACTERS DRIVE THIS BOOK. I COULD NOT PULL MYSELF AWAY FROM THIS BOOK AFTER THE SECOND CHAPTER. IF YOU GET PAST THE FIRST COUPLE OF CHAPTERS WITH ALL THE MEDICAL JARGON YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK AS I DID. YOU WILL ALSO WANT TO MEET MAKS.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!, September 14, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Center (Mass Market Paperback)

As a fan of Michael Crichton and used to his style, I can say Shobin's style is not quite as smooth, however this book kept my interest more than any Crichton book ever has. It was exciting and shocking in parts. All books can be somewhat predictable, but this one was full of surprises. Now I need to go back and find and read more titles from this guy.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A really riviting page turner, October 13, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Center (Mass Market Paperback)

This medical thriller by David Shobin, will keep you rivited to your chair. This is one of the most believeable book I've read in a long time. You won't be able to put it down.