Weapon of choice : a novel

Resource Information

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Label

Weapon of choice : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Patricia Gussin

Creator

• Gussin, Patricia

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Subject

• Electronic books
• Suspense fiction
• White supremacy movements -- Fiction
• Bacterial diseases -- Fiction
• Women physicians -- Fiction

Genre

• Suspense fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Life is good for Dr. Laura Nelson. Her kids have their ups and downs, but seem well adjusted to high school and college; her research project at the university is going well; and she is highly regarded as the chief of surgery at Tampa City Hospital. The sense of tranquility is disrupted when she is drawn into the diagnosis of the first cases of HIV/AIDS seen in Tampa. But the challenge of this new disease is dwarfed by the disaster that impacts Laura's life a few days later. A highly resistant bacterial infection is raging in the surgical intensive care unit, and patients are dying. To make matters worse, Laura's daughter is exposed to the bacteria and begins to show symptoms. Desperate at this point, Laura calls her young friend, Dr. Stacy Jones, at the CDC in Atlanta. Stacy arrives in Tampa, unaware that a deadly plot is underway in Atlanta as a covert white supremacist cell plans an unthinkable attack on a massive scale. Caught in the middle, Laura and Stacy encounter an opportunity to connect the Tampa nightmare with the impending Atlanta devastation. But can they prevent it?

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

813

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult