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A Case of Need

by: Michael Crichton (author) Jeffery Hudson (author)

Written as Jeffery Hudson in 1968.A Case of Need is Michael Crichton's award-winning debut novel, written shortly after he completed his medical internship. Set against the ever-building pressure and pace of a large Boston medical center, the tensions flare -- and explode -- when a surgical... show more

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Publisher: Open Road Media

Pages no: 416

Edition language: English

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Novels, Science Fiction, Mystery, Detective, Medical, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Modern, Suspense

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riley rated it

9 years ago

http://riley.booklikes.com riley 3.5 Entertaining and thought-provoking but...

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This is a real page turner and it's easy to see why it's the book that properly launched Crichton's career: it's full of detailed information about contemporary medicine but Crichton uses that detail to drive the plot, not to overwhelm the reader in minutiae (as some "techno thriller" writers do). T...

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sarah rated it

17 years ago

http://sarah.booklikes.com sarah 3.0 Michael Crichton: A Case of Need

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Not what I expected. Given that the central event of the book is an illegal abortion which resulted in the death of a woman, I had guessed that the characters would immediately settle down into a debate about morality. In fact, the book was written in the 1960s, before the US was divided to the pers...

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