by Harlan Coben
First published 2011
Sara Lowell has everything she wants. Her career as a television journalist thrives. Her husband Michael Silverman dominates New York basketball courts. Their connections reach into politics, medicine, and professional sports. Then Michael receives a diagnosis that changes everything. He has contracted a disease that divides the nation and destroys lives. On Manhattan's Upper West Side, one doctor has devoted himself to treating this condition. His patients recover at remarkable rates. But someone wants them dead. A killer targets the doctor's success stories one by one. Michael enters treatment as the murders escalate. Sara watches her husband fight for his life while a predator hunts the very people who might save him. She must navigate deadly politics and medical controversy to protect the man she loves.
Genres: medical, suspense, mystery, thriller
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, race-against-time
Setting: Manhattan, Upper West Side
Period: 21st-century
511 pages · Paperback · Dutton
Content warnings: medical-trauma, terminal-illness