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Tess Gerritsen used to be a doctor, so it comes as no great surprise that the medical parts of her latest thriller are very convincing, even if most of the action happens in a place where few doctors have ever practised--outer space.
Dr. Emma Watson and five other hand-picked astronauts are about to take part in the trip of a lifetime--studying living creatures in space. But an alien life form, found in the deepest crevices of the ocean floor is accidentally brought aboard the shuttle Atlantis. This mutated alien life form makes the creatures in Aliens look like backyard pets.
Soon the crew are suffering severe stomach pains, violent convulsions and eyes so bloodshot that a gallon of Optrex wouldn't help. Gerritsen brilliantly describes the difficulties of treating sick people inside a space module, and how the lack of gravity affects the process of taking blood and inserting a nasal tube. Dr. Watson does her best, but her colleagues die off one by one and the people at NASA don't want to risk bringing the platform back to Earth. Only Emma's husband, a doctor/astronaut, refuses to give up on her. As we read along, eyes popping out of their sockets, all that's missing is one of those bland NASA voices saying, "Houston, we have a problem--we're being attacked by tiny little creatures that are part human, part frog and part mouse."
Here are some other examples of Gerritsen's controlled medical horrors:Bloodstream, Harvest, and Life Support. --Dick Adler --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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‘If you like your crime medicine strong, this will keep you gripped' Mail on Sunday
'Authentic, convincing' Sunday Times
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'Goes head-to-head with Nicci French and Karin Slaughter to scare the pants off you… A classic page-turner, full of melodrama’ Daily Mirror
‘Compulsive’ Irish Times
Praise for Gerritsen:
‘Tess Gerritsen is an automatic must-read in my house. If you’ve never read Gerritsen, figure in the price of electricity when you buy your first novel by her ‘cause baby, you are going to be up all night. She is better than Palmer, better than Cook… Yes, even better than Crichton’ Stephen King
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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful
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It just so happened I had a lazy afternoon so I picked up this book...and I couldn't put it down! I was up at 3am when I finished it and my word what a book. Extremely well researched and captivating from the first page, with believable characters. It's now amoung my favourite books.
This is a MUST read for anyone interested in books that contain medical stuff, blood and guts spewing out everywhere, and anything to do with NASA and space flight.
This is my first taste of Tess Gerritsen, but definatly not my last - looking up her other books as I type! :o)
35 of 36 people found the following review helpful
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"All at once his body went rigid. The wetness had slid beneath the edge of the cap. It was now squirming towards his ear. Not a droplet of water, not a stray trickle, but something that moved with purpose. Something alive... He thrashed left, then right, trying to dislodge it. He banged hard on his (space) helmet. And still he felt it moving, sliding under his comm assembly... He caught dizzying glimpses of earth, then black space, then earth again, as he flailed and twisted around in a frantic dance ... The wetness slithered into his ear."
Bummer. Makes you want to swear off space walks.
According to the jacket of Tess Gerritsen's GRAVITY, Dr. Emma Watson finds herself aboard the International Space Station (ISS) facing a zero-gravity experiment gone bad, a culture of single-celled organisms run amok. The crew is infected one by one, with fatal results. The world's population is put at risk. The ISS is quarantined. O dear, how does our heroine survive and get home?
After the first third or so of this thriller, I was tempted to put it down, and write it off as a two-star effort. Too many of the elements seemed tired, potentially leading to a predictable plot. Beautiful, hotshot young doctor rockets into orbit before being able to sign divorce papers. Her estranged husband, also a hotshot physician, is an astronaut permanently grounded because of kidney stones. (He still loves her, of course.) A maverick U.S. company has developed a quick-turnaround alternative to the space shuttle. And, while the first prototype blew up on launch, the second is untested, but, hey, ready to fly. A mysterious, Southern California (where else?) research outfit that owns the haywire experiment knows more than it's telling. I admit that I'm probably jaded, but puhleeze!
Then the monster, so to speak, gets loose, and people starting dying in the most horrific manner. I mean, if you wake up some morning after an all night bender, look into the mirror and notice a severe case of bloodshot eyes, then you may as well run screaming into the street because you're not going to have a good week. Trust me.So, Tess pulls out of her nosedive in the knick of time, and I'm happy to award 4 stars. Nice job!
31 of 33 people found the following review helpful
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i thought this book was completely and utterly BRILLIANT.grabs you by the throat from the begining and holds you until the very end.i've recommended this book to everyone that i know - it's just fantastic!!!!
GO BUY THIS BOOK - YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED.
GO BUY THIS BOOK - YOU WILL NOT BE DISSAPOINTED.
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Alien- esque
I really like Tess Gerritsen. Her plots are original and the characters within are well rounded and human. These are people you can relate to. Read more
Published 15 days ago by S. Worker
not up to her usual standard
just had to let you all know, about the implausible, cheesy ending to this book. I won't say more as if you decide to read it ( which in the main is very good) it would spoil it.
Published 28 days ago by Penelope Robinson
This book touches on so many themes
This book is so good in so many ways. It covers so many themes of such varying subjects but still manages to blend them together. Read more
Published 2 months ago by john
Loved it!!
I just have to say that I absolutely loved this book!!! Kept me interested all the way through. My only gripe is that I do agree with a couple of the comments that there were too... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Lillybelle
5 stars is not enough
An amazing book, just gets better and better. You wont be dissapointed
The scenes are so vividly written at points I had to look away from the page!! Read more
The scenes are so vividly written at points I had to look away from the page!! Read more
Published 2 months ago by M. J. Sylvester
A marathon that dragged me along
Jargon, acronyms, astro physics, biochemistry, microbiology, histology, pathology, oceanography, physiology, bariatrics - all the 'ologies' thrown in a bowl and mixed together with... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mrs. P. Brand
I shouldn't have liked it - but I did
This is the second novel by Tess Gerritsen that I've read, I really didn't like the other one (Whistleblower) but, this one, I did. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Mimimum
One of her best yet!
I bought this in a supermarket because I wanted something to read and I ususlly like her booksk and I was not disappointed as I enjoyed it immensely. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Kirrawee
Amazing!
Im a fan of Tess Gerritson I love the medical thriller genre.
In some ways its a departure from her other books as its main setting is at the International Space Station. Read more
In some ways its a departure from her other books as its main setting is at the International Space Station. Read more
Published 4 months ago by B. Searle
Terrific stuff
Read a few Tess Gerritsen novels now and am hugely impressed. This one, in particular, was gripping, superbly researched and well written. Read more
Published 4 months ago by C. Lee
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