Death Rounds

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Summary: You can't put it down
Review: Clement's has a way of gluing you to the pages. I found it hard to put down. I'm a big fan of Robin Cooks, but this book is one of the best I've read in years. Now I need to read lethal practice. I'm sure it's as great as Death Rounds. He has done a great job with the first person narrative. I can't wait for his next one.

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Summary: THE BEST BOOK I HAVE READ IN YEARS
Review: Death Rounds was by far the best book i have read in years. It takes you on a roller coaster ride from the first page and leaves you breathless!! Peter Clements first hand knowledge of the inner workings of a big city ER gives this book the believability needed to grab you from page one and not let go till the story is done.

He keeps you guessing from page to page. Not only WHO but HOW. Then raps it all up in a neat little package at the end. I really liked the fact that at the end of the book you were able to put it down without a lot of questions unanswered as with many mysteries I have read.

I cant wait to get my hands on his next book.

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Summary: Suspenseful
Review: I bought this book, because I really enjoyed his previous one "Lethal Injection". It definitely was a real page-turner for me. I couldn't wait to get to the end of it, to see how it would end. The fact that he repeats his characters from the first book, I think is great. I had a hard time figuring out who the killer was. If you have a few hours to spare one day, start this book, you won't be able to put it down.

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Summary: Definitely a page turner
Review: I read this book and thought it to be a great page turner... it didn't take me long to read it, I couldn't wait to get to the end.

Another thing that I liked about this book is that the main character continues from Lethal Injection. The medical information was very interesting... makes you think how and if??? It kept me guessing right until the end... I can't wait for his next book!!

I would recommend this book!!

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Summary: Will to for hospitals what Jaws did for water
Review: In Buffalo, University Nospital and St. Paul's Hospital are in the process of merging some of their departments in order to reduce costs. Dr. Earl Garnett, chief of the emergency room of St. Paul's, is not interested in the swirling politics between the two hospitals. Like his spouse Janet, a University Hospital doctor, Earl only wants to be a healer. However, Earl feels guilty when he discharges a patient, a nurse at University, only to have her return the next day extremely ill.

Janet informs Earl that this is the third nurse to exhibit the same pattern. She feels that the "Phantom," a being no one has seen, has been hurting those medical employees who have been known to mistreat their patients. Janet feels the dormant Phantom is real. When more deaths occur from a strain of a man-made bug, Earl believes his spouse's theory is true. Soon, the hospital faces hysteria, quarantine, and finally mass evacuation due to the Phantom's antics. Earl places his own life on the line to stop an avenging maniac from killing anyone else.

Make room on the medical thriller keeper shelf for a new top gun in Peter Clements. This novel does to hospitals what JAWS did to beaches in the seventies. DEATH ROUNDS is a tension builder, suspense-filled chiller that will provide the audience with much reading pleasure; just do not get sick because the reader will not want to be even an out-patient. The hero is a caring every-person, who requires extraordinary circumstances to turn him into a legendary figure. Mr. Clements needs to provide fans with more novels starring that gem of a doctor, Earl Garnett.

Harriet Klausner

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Summary: Close but no cigar.
Review: The back cover blurb and inside praise for Lethal Practice convinced me to buy this book but I was disappointed. It definitely was NOT a page-turner for me. I finished it only because I wanted to see how it would end. My main complaint is that there isn't much action to propel the plot. The novel is chiefly about hospital politics (boring), and I found myself not really caring about most of the characters. I figured out who the killer was about halfway through the book because the culprit is the least likely suspect. The medical portions are well done but that's not enough to make up for the shortcomings. If you want to read an excellent novel dealing with an emerging unstoppable infectious organism try The Third Pandemic by Pierre Ouellette. Another action-packed medical thriller is Threshold by Ben Mezrich. I also recommend the books by Tess Gerritsen.

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Summary: Death Rounds--a waste of time
Review: The only positive aspect of this sluggish, poorly written novel about an antibiotic-resistant bacteria is the medical information, but for some it may be difficult to follow.

The negative aspects are multiple (listed here in descending order):

(a) the culprit is obvious well before the middle of the novel. Given this, the reader is left to wonder if the protagonist, a supposedly intelligent physician (who constantly plays into the hands of the villain) has cottage cheese in place of brains, or if the author expects us to figure it out and the fact that we know "who dunnit," while the protagonist doesn't, is supposed to build dramatic tension. If the former, it's hard to feel any connection with the protagonist, who, by his stupidity, is more-or-less responsible for multiple deaths (of course, the novel would have ended earlier had the protagonist seen what the reader easily discerns). If the latter, I for one don't like that plot device. Either way, the main problem is not knowing which. If I had to guess, given the "cagey" way the protagonist, as he's waiting for the killer to walk through a door, says he knows who's going to go through the door (and guess what? so do we) without naming the character, I would say the author doesn't itend that we know. But we do, and we wonder how this guy (the physician-protagonist, or the physician-turned-author, you take your pick) got through medical school.

(b) the prose is over-inflated, filled with passages of inner thoughts by the protagonist (the novel is written in the first person), who ruminates incessantly without every reaching any of the obvious conclusions (see above). I ended up skimming most such passages, and eventually just skipped to the end to confirm my knowledge of the killer.

(c) the plot is elaborate and clunky. In order to keep the protagonist "in the dark," the author has to set up a situations that are marginally plausible and motivations that are suspect and overly elaborate.

(d) The protagonist and his wife, another full-time physician, essentially abandon their infant child to the nanny. They think about the kid, they have a couple scenes with him, but they're never home, except to sleep and muse about who the "mysterious phantom killer" might be. The rest of the time, they leave the child with the nanny. I suppose this is something that happens in real life, but I find it just plain offensive and wonder why it's even in the novel, since it contributes little to the plot. (d) and finally, a personal gripe: The protagonist refers to his wife as "lady" on multiple occasions (as in, "Hey, lady, you really know how to play me"). I don't like it. Maybe it's not something that bother other people.

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Summary: A Excellent Mystrey
Review: This is an book that is about a deadly virus going around through the hospita1. Everyone is coming down with the harmful disease! Who is creating the dreadful disease? Find out when you read Death Rounds by Peter Clement!