Critical Conditions (Lib)(CD) [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Stephen White (Author)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Books on Tape (January 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 073668039X
• ISBN-13: 978-0736680394
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• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,770,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stephen White is a clinical psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of suspense novels, including Dead Time and The Siege. He lives in Colorado.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book., May 1, 2000

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Tabitha Orender (Texas) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Critical Conditions: An Alan Gregory Thriller (Paperback)

I started out reading his book Manner of Death which was a birthday gift from my father. I enjoyed that book so much I went out a bought this book. It keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. It is a page turner and I couldn't put it down. So far the two books that I have read are excellent.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!!, October 21, 2007

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Michelle Watsoon (Miami, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Critical Conditions: An Alan Gregory Thriller (Paperback)

This is my first book by Stephen White, but not the last. The plot is excellent with many twists and turns to keep me interested, not confused. It sees Dr. Gregory trying to help a young girl who may or may not have killed in order for her sister to get critical health care. However, readers shouldn't despair as it is not full of medical language or too much cumbersome details. I give this book a well deserved five star rating.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Mature-immature-devious-charming Kid, October 19, 2004

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Larry Scantlebury (Ypsilanti, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Critical Conditions: An Alan Gregory Thriller (Paperback)

The problem with writing about kids, particularly teenagers, is that we have gratefully forgotten what a difficult, scary, uncharted journey adolescence was for us. And I'm just talking about acne and skinny arms (or chests)! Imagine what we would feel like if we had terminally ill sibs?

As a result we have pushed to the more distant recesses of our memory what we did or even more significantly, why we did it. So the 15-year old ingenue in White's excellent murder mystery is at times conniving, relentless, obsessed, beautiful, kid-like, confused along with all of the other formed and unformed virtue/vices of kids placed in life and death circumstances. Or what we imagine those to be.

Her infant sister is dying of a rare disease necessitating, if it will work at all, an expensive heart transplant. Each member of the family has made tremendous sacrifices and then Merritt, the 15-year old, is charged with the murder of the CEO of the insurance provider who rejected the application for the transplant. Did she? Didn't she? Who did? And what else went on?

White weaves in the usual suspects, the gruff Sam Purdy, the lovely but also ill wife Lauren, his (not so) "normal" colleagues, a couple of Colorado Avalanche hockey games . . . even the loyal dog Emily makes several appearances.

Hard to believe, I suppose, to paraphrase Churchill, that so much could happen to so few so close to eachother at the same time. Yet, a relentless mystery for Dr. Alan Gregory to solve who despite impressive credentials, remains "everyman" under these painful circumstances.

Larry Scantlebury. 4 stars.