Harvest, Tess Gerritsen
Harvest, Tess Gerritsen
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Harvest

Author: Tess Gerritsen

Narrator: Jayne Brook

Abridged: 2 hr 54 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/01/1996


Synopsis

In this harrowing medical thriller filled with suspense and brilliantly crafted twists, Tess Gerritsen—the author of the acclaimed Rizzoli & Isles series that inspired the hit television show—delivers a pulse-pounding tale that “will make your heart skip a beat” (USA TODAY).

For Dr. Abby DiMatteo, the long road to Boston’s Bayside Hospital has been anything but easy. Now, immersed in the grinding fatigue of her second year as a surgical resident, she’s elated when the hospital’s elite cardiac transplant team taps her as a potential recruit.

But Abby soon makes an anguished, crucial decision that jeopardizes her entire career. A car crash victim’s healthy heart is ready to be harvested; it is immediately cross-matched to a wealthy private patient, Nina Voss. Abby hatches a bold plan to make sure that the transplant goes instead to a dying seventeen-year-old boy who is also a perfect match.

The repercussions are powerful and swift and Abby is shaken but unrepentant—until she meets the frail, tormented Nina. Then a new heart for Nina Voss suddenly appears, her transplant is completed, and Abby makes a terrible discovery: Nina’s heart has not come through the proper channels.

Defying Bayside Hospital’s demands for silence, Abby plunges into an investigation that reveals an intricate, and murderous, chain of deceptions. Every move Abby makes spawns a vicious backlash and, in a ship anchored in the stagnant waters of Boston Harbor, a final, grisly discovery lies waiting…

About Tess Gerritsen

It is pretty rare for someone to achieve a Medical Doctor degree, become a practicing physician, and a very successful author. That is the career path followed by Tess Gerritsen, an internationally bestselling author. Tess graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Anthropology, then her MD. from medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. From there, began her interesting journey.

Tess went to work as a physician in Honolulu, Hawaii, and during a maternity leave from that job, she wrote her first romantic suspense novel, Call After Midnight, which was followed by eight other such novels. She also wrote a screenplay, Adrift, which became a 1993 CBS movie starring Kate Jackson.

The author then began writing medical thrillers in 1996, with her novel, Harvest, which was her debut on the New York Times bestseller list. More than 15 books in the medical suspense genre followed. They were all aptly named, such as.....Life Support, Bloodstream, The Surgeon, The Bone Garden, and several others. Her books have been published in many countries, with over 30 million copies being sold internationally.

Tess Gerritsen's series of novels featuring homicide detective Jane Rizzoli and medical examiner Maura Isles inspired the very successful TNT television series, Rizzoli and Isles. She is now retired from medicine, and continues to write full time from her home in Maine.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by merri on 2007-06-14 00:01:09

tess is like the new robin cook. they even come from the same city, boston. i like reading her books, especially now, because although i dont miss boston, its cool to say yes that street i always was there or oh i lived there or whatever. the actual story is about selling harvested organs (read this while i watched that on nip tuck!) and the people and plot were great. cant wait to read more of her books.

Goodreads review by PowerAvocado on November 08, 2024

Yakov is eleven and lives in Russia. He smokes for three and half years. He steals whenever he can. Ha has to do it because he, other boys, and Misha need the dough for fags and food. He also turns tricks from the point he was nine. They don't care that he hasn't one of his hands. He is just little,......more

Goodreads review by Lynn on August 31, 2016

You know a book is really good when you read it all in one sitting. This book grabbed my attention immediately and I just did not want to pull myself away. The story centers on medical resident Abby DiMatteo, an ambitious new surgeon. Amidst the stress and sleep deprivation of her job at the hospital......more

Goodreads review by Paul on February 19, 2024

Move over, Cook and Palmer! You've got company! Nina Voss is dying and her husband, wealthy financier Victor Voss, will do almost anything to ensure that she receives a heart transplant actually scheduled for Joshua O'Day, a young seventeen year old lad currently on top of the transplant list. In a j......more

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on September 26, 2021

Goodreads peers who are ensconced in “thriller / horror”, search for reviews of mine to support and it is mutual. The ultimate adventures for me are mysterious atmospheres without crimes. I hereby treat my loyal peers to this review in their genre! “Harvest”, 1996, was a gift to my Mom from my Broth......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on March 10, 2024

Mėgstu šios knygos autorę, tačiau tai buvo ne pati geriausia jos knyga. Pirma pusė knygos buvo nuobodi, tik antra pusė knygos tapo įdomesnė, daugiau įtapmos ir intrigos atsirado.......more