Book Club  – Two heart-pounding thrillers

Mercy

David Baldacci. Bliss. Mercy introduces FBI Agent Atlee Pine who, after her twin sister was abducted when they were young, learnt three lessons in life. Some wounds never heal. Time doesn’t lessen your pain. She can make a difference. A brilliant new character from this brilliant storyteller. Pan Books.

Viral

Robin Cook’s medical thrillers always hit quite close to the bone. In Viral, we meet a man whose wife and daughter are hospital after they catch a lethal mosquito-borne viral disease, but finds a dubious clause in his medical policy has allowed the healthcare insurer reason not to pay the staggering hospital bills. Determined to seek justice, he uncovers the dark side of the historically ruthless industry. Alarmingly real! Macmillan.

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