Michael Palmer, Author . Bantam $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553-80203-0
Palmer's 10th medical thriller rides on his usual wave of unrelenting adrenaline, and will make readers think twice the next time they're due for a routine vaccination. The physician-hero this time is Matt Ruttledge, a doctor in bucolic...
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Michael Palmer, Author . Bantam $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-80204-7
Palmer's 11th medical thriller (Fatal
; etc.) takes careful and bloody aim at the managed care industry, beginning with the murder of several loathsome CEOs of HMOs in Massachusetts. Dr. Will Grant is a talented and caring physician in the...
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Michael Palmer, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-553-09516-6
A timely topic (health care) and a scary idea (a health care insurance cartel killing clients for ``cost containment'') give Palmer's new medical thriller (after Natural Causes) a big boost-but poor writing, including a series of unlikely plot...
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Michael Palmer, Author Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc $23.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-10523-0
In this flawed medical thriller about the marketing of a new drug by veteran writer Palmer (The Sisterhood), one plot twist too many turns a frightening vision of corporate greed into an excuse for prefab heroics. The drug is called Vasclear, a...
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Michael Palmer, Author Bantam Books $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-10983-2
Palmer's ninth medical thriller (after Miracle Cure) probably isn't the book to be reading when you've got a slight headache. Early on, a star Olympic gymnast feels a small pain in her skull, and soon she's having a brain tumor zapped by a flashy...
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Michael Palmer, Author Bantam $7.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-553-29577-1
A promising young doctor is threatened by his hospital's elite clique after discovering the group's criminal acts in Palmer's latest medical thriller. (Apr.)
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Michael Palmer, Author Bantam $7.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-553-57221-6
Palmer's latest medical thriller-about a health insurance cartel that is killing off clients-spent five weeks as a PW bestseller. (Mar.)
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Michael Palmer, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $21.95 (103p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1443-8
Palmer's obliquities, resonant mysteries and near approaches to sense have latterly made him one of the poets young, smart aesthetes admire and imitate. This 17th book of poems (following 1998's selected, The Lion Bridge) continues Palmer's familiar
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Michael Palmer, Author, Karil Wade, Author Bantam Books $21.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-09553-1
The latest medical thriller by physician Palmer ( Extreme Measures ) is timely and diverting. Dr. Sarah Baldwin is a fast-track OB/GYN resident at the Medical Center of Boston (aka ``Crunchy Granola General''), a hospital which seems ideally suited...
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Michael Palmer, Author, Iorg, Author Bantam Books $22.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-10074-7
A character in Palmer's latest medical chiller (after Silent Treatment) refers to the industrial enclave of Patience, Calif., locked among mountains above San Francisco, as ""Faustville."" It certainly seems as if the town has made a pact with the...
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Michael Palmer, Author, Hailey, Author Bantam $7.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-553-56876-9
The latest medical thriller from the author of Extreme Measures portrays a holistic healing OB/GYN who discovers that her patients are mysteriously dying from an herbal vitamin she had prescribed. (Jan.)
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Michael Palmer, Author, Peter Gizzi, Editor Exact Change $35 (0p) ISBN 978-1-878972-17-0
Audacious, quirky and handsomely produced, this is the first yearbook of a new collection of contemporary and historical avant-garde poetry and prose; included is a CD (not made available to PW) on which John Ashbery, Jack Spicer and others read....
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Michael Palmer, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $19.95 (260p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1383-7
Palmer has long and rightly been considered the most lyrical, and the most aurally accomplished, among poets in the experimental tradition of Louis Zukofsky and Gertrude Stein; this selection spanning his career restores to print much of his...
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Michael Palmer, Author New Directions Publishing Corporation $19.95 (245p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1470-4
Codes Appearing: Poems 1979-1988 will appeal to those left unsatisfied by Michael Palmer's The Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972-1995. It collects Palmer's three most best-known volumes, all originally from North Point Press: Notes for Echo Lake (1981
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Michael Palmer, St. Martin's, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-58752-9
Palmer (The Last Surgeon) offers a nifty plot premise in this high-concept medical thriller, but a plethora of subplots distracts from the more interesting primary issue. As the U.S. president, James Allaire, is beginning his State of the Union...
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Michael Palmer. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1921-1
Palmer's 21st collection of poems, at first glance, looks like many of his previous books, but he's got some new tricks up his sleeve. Like many poets in later stages of their careers, Palmer is meditating on mortality in these lyrics and sequences,
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Michael Palmer. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-58753-6
In this suspenseful thriller from bestseller Palmer (A Heartbeat Away), Dr. Lou Welcome, who nine years earlier lost his medical license “for self-prescribing amphetamines,” now works for the organization that cured him of his addiction, the...
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Michael Palmer, Author . New Directions $16.95 (96p) ISBN 978-0-8112-1623-4
Hieratic, hypnotic, at times apocalyptic, Palmer's 10th volume (his first since 2001) offers more of the serious pleasures and delvings that have won him admiration over 30 years. The four sequences here (almost all in unrhymed couplets)...
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Michael Palmer. New Directions, $19.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-81123-089-6
“I told myself there were no more real/ poems left to write, only fake poems,” writes Palmer (The Laughter of the Sphinx) in his beautiful and startling latest, noting that such poems are “after all the best,/ like fake snow in a ballet.” Palmer’s...
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Michael Palmer, Author . St. Martin’s $25.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-312-34353-8
This over-the-top yet endlessly entertaining thriller from bestseller Palmer (The Fifth Vial
) pits a country doctor against a conspiracy to kill the president. Dr. Gabe Singleton, an old friend of President Andrew Stoddard, is brought to Washington,
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Michael Palmer, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-34355-2
In this routine medical thriller from bestseller Palmer (The First Patient
), Dr. Thea Sperelakis, an idealist who's been working for Doctors Without Borders in the Congo, rushes back to Boston after learning her physician father, Petros, an...
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Michael Palmer, Author . St. Martin's $26.99 (373p) ISBN 978-0-312-58749-9
In this anemic medical thriller from bestseller Palmer (The Second Opinion
), former trauma surgeon Dr. Nick Garrity, who suffers from PTSD as the result of a suicide attack on his field hospital in Afghanistan, is now in charge of the Helping Hands
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Michael Palmer, read by Robert Petkoff. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, nine CDs, 11 hrs., $35.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-0993-1
Robert Petkoff proves to be the perfect choice to narrate Palmer's latest medical thriller. During the president's State of the Union address, the terrorist group Genesis exposes him and the 700 congressmen, senators, and spectators inside the...
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Michael Palmer, Author, Michael Palmer, Author . St. Martin's $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-34351-4
Bestseller Palmer (The Society
) tackles the illegal transplant organ trade in his entertaining 12th medical suspense novel. What do three very different people—Harvard medical student Natalie Reyes, Chicago PI Ben Callahan and scientific...
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Michael Palmer, read by Robert Petkoff. Macmillan Audio, unabridged, eight CDs, 10.5 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-0995-5
Robert Petkoff delivers solid narration in this audio edition of the latest medical thriller from Palmer. When Dr. John Meacham, whose medical license was once suspended for alcohol abuse and anger issues, loses control and murders seven people...
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Michael Palmer. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-58755-0
Bestseller Palmer soft-pedals his usual medical agenda in his disappointing second Dr. Lou Welcome thriller (after 2011’s Oath of Office). Lou, who was once in treatment for amphetamine and alcohol dependence, receives a distress call from a close...
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Michael Palmer. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-1-250-03092-4
Members of a secret group founded in the early 1940s, the Society of One Hundred Neighbors, believe that entitlements begun under F.D.R. are dooming the U.S. to bankruptcy and moral decay in the less-than-convincing third Dr. Lou Welcome thriller (af
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Michael and Daniel Palmer. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-03089-4
In the less than successful final medical thriller from Michael Palmer (1942–2013), completed by his son Daniel Palmer (Desperate), an error by neurosurgeon Carrie Bryant harms a patient and leads to her resignation from Boston Community Hospital...
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Michael Palmer and Daniel Palmer. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-03084-9
Boston doctor Julie Devereux, a divorced mother and the heroine of this outstanding second posthumous collaboration (after 2015’s Trauma) between Daniel Palmer and his father, Michael (1942–2013), is on the verge of marrying the love of her life,...
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Michael Palmer. New Directions, $15.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-8112-2554-0
In his latest work, stalwart avant-gardist Palmer (Thread) makes use of repetition in sonic textures, word choice, and themes to let the varied elements of his poems echo and reverberate, creating a sense of meaning and movement amid what is seen...
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Michael and Daniel Palmer, read by Hillary Huber. Macmillan Audio, , unabridged, 11 CDs, 13 hrs., $39.99 ISBN 978-1-4272-3366-0
This medical thriller by the late Michael Palmer and his son, Daniel, centers around Julie Devereux, a critical care physician at Boston’s White Memorial Hospital, who has always been an advocate of death with dignity. That changes when a brutal...
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Daniel Palmer. St. Martin’s, $27.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-10742-8
Paper-thin characters and a hard-to-swallow plot mar bestseller Palmer’s self-described homage to his late father Michael’s The First Patient. Karen Ray, the Secret Service agent primarily responsible for the safety of Cam Hilliard, the U.S....
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