Deadly Harvest - Hardcover

Goldberg, Leonard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525940936 ISBN 13: 9780525940937

Publisher: Dutton, 1997

Synopsis

Desperate forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock turns to a legal, for-profit company to find a liver for her dying sister, only to discover that the company finds its organ donors through less than scrupulous means

About this title

About the Author:

Leonard Goldberg, M.D., is a clinical professor at the UCLA Medical Center.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Tough police Lieutenant Jake Sinclair and pathologist Joanna Blalock (Deadly Care, 1996) team up again to excellent effect, tackling a tangled web of a case that pits them against both garden-variety murderers and predatory traffickers in human body parts. When heavy rainfall unearths a corpse buried ten years or more on a mountainside separating West Los Angeles from the San Fernando Valley, Jake catches the call. In need of forensic expertise, he appeals to his estranged lover Joanna for assistance. Despite troubles of her own, she agrees to help him on this and a recent killing that left a wealthy industrialist dead, apparently at the hands of a violence-prone intruder, in his Brentwood home. Although deeply concerned about the deteriorating health of younger sister Kate (suffering from a viral affliction contracted while on an archaeological expedition in Central America) and an alarming incidence of organ transplant fatalities at Memorial Hospital (her professional base), Joanna bears up, providing Jake with valuable clues on the anonymous remains and slain millionaire (whose treacherous trophy widow is subsequently slaughtered along with a small-time actor in a cheap motel room). Kate's liver soon begins to fail, and the distraught Joanna must rely on a concern called Donors International to supply an immediate replacement. While a legal enterprise apparently operating within the law, uncommonly prosperous DI proves a decidedly secretive organization, one that may have, yes, skeletons in its closets. Jake and Joanna eventually pierce the corporate veil to expose the horrific for-profit endeavors of Donors International. Before doing so, however, they must do personal battle with a mob-connected surgeon, excessively entrepreneurial scientists, and a villainous physician who takes a decidedly broad view of the phrase ``homegrown.'' Shock value and more from Goldberg, a clinical professor at UCLA Medical Center who has the anatomy of ingenious murders down pat. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dutton
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0525940936
• ISBN 13: 9780525940937
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352