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Coma
397 pages
A chilling, pulse-pounding descent into the sterile horrors hiding behind the closed doors of a modern hospital.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like walking down a brightly lit hospital corridor and suddenly realizing the doors have locked behind you. It is a masterclass in escalating paranoia, taking the inherent vulnerability of being a patient and twisting it into a propulsive, dread-soaked nightmare. The narrative moves with the ruthless efficiency of a scalpel, stripping away the comforting illusion of medical safety to expose a chilling conspiracy beneath. Grounded in precise, clinical prose, the story builds a claustrophobic atmosphere where every beep of a monitor and hiss of an oxygen valve feels like a threat. It will thoroughly delight fans of fast-paced, conspiracy-driven thrillers who love the terrifying intersection of scientific realism and institutional corruption.
- Mood
- claustrophobic
- chilling
- sterile
- dread-soaked
- Tone
- clinical
- urgent
- paranoid
- suspenseful
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- medical ethics · institutional corruption · vulnerability of the sick · scientific hubris · paranoia
- The writing
- Direct and medically precise, utilizing clinical jargon to ground the escalating terror in chilling realism.
- The arc
- Moves from unsettling curiosity to a suffocating, desperate fight for survival against an unseen institutional threat.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave high-stakes, conspiracy-driven thrillers that turn everyday settings into landscapes of absolute dread.
Content notes
- medical trauma
- body horror
- organ harvesting
- gaslighting
- claustrophobia
About the book
They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up.
Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning.
Then Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute, an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from the ceiling and kept alive until they can be harvested for healthy organs. Is she a participant in--or a victim of--a large-scale black market dealing in human organs?
Description from Open Library.
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