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Life Support

Author: Tess Gerritsen
Publisher: Bantam Books Ltd
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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

18 reviews
Sales Rank: 14563

Media: Paperback
Pages: 480
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 1.4

ISBN: 0553817736
EAN: 9780553817737
ASIN: 0553817736

Publication Date: April 24, 2006
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Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...

4 out of 5 stars

Great medical thriller February 19, 2008
This is what Mrs. Gerritsen does best. I love it when a book grips me like this! Well written, creepy and masterfully written. The heroine is tri-dimensional, with her career and personal problems. All in all, an excellent read. You cannot miss it if you like medical thrillers.

5 out of 5 stars

Chilling September 4, 2007
Life Support contains plenty of action, gore and suspense from the word go. Far from being a flighty, half hearted horror story, this one really chills to the bone, Gerritsen's knowledge of the medical world being all too apparent. A terrific thriller. Life Support was my first experience of Tess Gerritsen, and I can't wait to get my teeth into more.

4 out of 5 stars

Not your typical, everyday science-fiction romantic horror medical thriller June 11, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

First, a warning. My copy of this book originally published in 1997 includes an `introduction' by the author written in 2006. If yours does too, do not read it until after you have finished the story! In my case I was unaware how much it could spoil my enjoyment, which it did for hundreds of pages because before the tale begins Tess has kind of told you what it's about. Maybe it wasn't her idea to add this piece of information but to be blunt it's a pretty dumb idea to put it at the beginning when it would have done no harm at all at the end.

You see, this story starts off in fascinating fashion in the form of a prologue involving a surgeon about to perform a major operation on an anaesthetised female patient. What happens as he opens up her body is a mixture of horror and hilarity in equal measure, but the reasons for his bizarre actions are almost completely neutralised because thanks to the unwanted introduction, we now know exactly why he did it. What a shame, because this could have been a first-rate thriller if not for that. It's like reading the last chapter of a whodunit mystery FIRST. Where are the thrills once you know what's going on?

Otherwise this story reminded me of the superior HARVEST by the same author. Attractive female thirty-something doctor in a Boston hospital unearths ghoulish medical conspiracy and fights to deliver justice against all the odds. It's pretty good, to be fair, well worth reading before or after any of the Rizzoli/Isles episodes for which Tess Gerritsen has found fame and fortune. Quite a few names in that series, however, appear in this novel - for example there's a Jane, a cop called Moore, a love-interest called Daniel.....any of these sound familiar to you Rizzoli/Isles fans? They're totally different people but it made me wonder why the writer chose to, in effect, resurrect these names in her crime thriller series of more recent years.

Definitely worth buying whether you're a fan or not. Just make sure you give that intro a miss!

5 out of 5 stars

Another medical billiance August 21, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful

I have read most of Tess Gerritsen's books and came across this by mistake but was not disappointed at all! It was unput downable from the first page, definietly worth a read if you are a fan or new to her work.

3 out of 5 stars

Gripping but too busy May 4, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

I love Tess Gerritsens books. The medical detail is usually fascinating and the story rushes on a pace. This book has all those qualities but it is literally too busy, too full of different characters and sub plots. Towards the end of the book you have forgotten what happened at the beginning because she has introduced so many new twists and extra characters. This is one of her earlier works re-published. I think her later work is more simplistic and gripping in its telling. You have to be a dedicated medical thriller fan to enjoy this.