[PDF] Terminal Man eBook

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804171297

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From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation. Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blackouts when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain’s pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda. . .

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 37,29 MB
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307816427

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From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation. Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blackouts when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain’s pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda. . .

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 26,21 MB
Release : 2002-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0060092572

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Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that her requires a police guard when entering a L.A. hospital for treatment. Dr. McPherson is convinced he can cure Benson. Operation performed is a sucess. Benson discovers how to get pulses fast-escapes &

Author : Alfred Mehran
Publisher : Corgi
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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The Terminal Man is the extraordinary story of Mehran Karimi Nasseria, better known as 'Sir Alfred' of Charles de Gaulle Airport. airport's Terminal One building, trapped in international no-man's land without the proper documentation needed to move on. he received an even greater shock when the woman he regarded as his mother told him he wasn't her son, but the result of a union between his father and a British nurse. A deal was agreed for Sir Alfred to disappear overseas to England and his family would pay for his studies. After a year at university, his family broke all contact and he returned to Iran where he was imprisoned for his political activism, was arrested and tortured. He was then expelled from Iran with a passport valid for just one year - so he was now a stateless person. his documents. He boarded a plane to London but without the appropriate documentation was sent straight back to Paris. On trying to leave the airport he was arrested and sentenced as an illegal immigrant, and served six months in jail. to enter any other country. Fearing arrest if he left the terminal building but unable to board a flight, he was trapped there for years. newspapers and magazines stored in cargo boxes and his extensive diary. As Sir Alfred remained trapped between countries his fame began to spread. There have been numerous press and magazines articles around the globe; he receives hundreds of letters from well-wishers as well as his visits and has also featured in three documentary feature films about his plight as the world's only celebrity homeless person. media magnet and, most of all, delayed passenger, The Terminal Man tells Sir Alfred's incredible and unique life story in his own words.

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804171297

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From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a neurological thriller about the dangers of cutting-edge medical experimentation. Harry Benson suffers from violent seizures. So violent that he often blackouts when they take hold. Shortly after severely beating two men during an episode, the police escort Benson to a Los Angeles hospital for treatment. There, Dr. Roger McPherson, head of the prestigious Neuropsychiatric Research Unit, is convinced he can cure Benson with an experimental procedure that would place electrodes deep in his brain’s pleasure centers, effectively short-circuiting Harry's seizures with pulses of bliss. The surgery is successful, but while Benson is in recovery, he discovers how to trigger the pulses himself. To make matters worse his violent impulses have only grown, and he soon escapes the hospital with a deadly agenda. . .

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Gramercy
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,29 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780517064931

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A collection of the first three novels written by Willa Cather, one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

Author : Robert J. Sawyer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 110154368X

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Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. But they all have escaped from Hobson's computer into the web-and one of them is a killer.

Author : Jack Carr
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 29,34 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 198219734X

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An Atria Book. Atria Books has a great book for every reader. ​

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307816419

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From the author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes a captivating thriller about a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism, which threatens to annihilate human life. Five prominent biophysicists have warned the United States government that sterilization procedures for returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere. Two years later, a probe satellite falls to the earth and lands in a desolate region of northeastern Arizona. Nearby, in the town of Piedmont, bodies lie heaped and flung across the ground, faces locked in frozen surprise. What could cause such shock and fear? The terror has begun, and there is no telling where it will end.

Author : Andrew Vachss
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 25,62 MB
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307387054

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After years of carefully working the edges, a blood-commitment forces Burke's return to his former career: "violence-for-money." Claw, once the shot-caller of a white supremacist prison gang is free . . . and terminally ill--he desperately needs a pile of cash to bet on a long-shot cure. He tells Burke about a punk who once purchased protection from him, a man who claims to know the truth behind a "cold case, " the unsolved rape-murder of a thirteen-year-old girl. The killers are all weathly men today, ideal blackmail marks. But wealth is power, and the informant needs Claw's protection again. Burke decides to roll the dice. A win would give Burke the two things he lives for: Money and Revenge. A loss would turn "terminal" from a diagnosis into a certainly, and not just for Claw.