Sunday, September 21, 2008

Gerritsen, Tess. Harvest.

Gerritsen, Tess. Harvest. London: Transworld Publishers. 1996,2006

Yakov and his friends, underdeveloped, malnourished and sexually battered children from the back streets of Arbatskaya, Russia.
Dr.Abby Di Matteo, a second year surgical student at Bayside, the doctor with a heart.
Nina Voss, with a failing heart and the wife of a rich businessman.
Josh, the fourteen year old, desperately in need of a new heart to start living life once more as a baseball lover.
Vivian, the astute doctor.
Dr. Mark Hodell, the man whom Abby loves.
Katzka, the toughned and seasoned detective on the beat, strangely drawn to Abby.
Scalpels. Organs. Codes. ECGs. Cross matches. Ventricullar fibrillation. Transplant. Organ rejection. Greed. Money in millions.
The bare thread is here.
And, what a tale this turns out to be. Every page is a heart stopper. Every line, a shocker.

Rating: 4 stars