The Organ Takers, Richard Van Anderson
The Organ Takers, Richard Van Anderson
List: $19.99 | Sale: $13.99
Club: $9.99

The Organ Takers
A Novel of Surgical Suspense

Author: Richard Van Anderson

Narrator: Joel Richards

Unabridged: 10 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/15/2018

Synopsis

Failed surgeon David McBride is in exile from the surgical community after making a costly error in judgment. Down but not out, he perseveres and is given a second chance to establish a career in surgery. But, as McBride stands on the threshold of a new life, the malignant underside of his fellow man intervenes. Under the threat of violence, David is forced to perform illegal organ harvests in a makeshift operating room hidden in a dilapidated meatpacking warehouse in lower Manhattan. Unable to resolve the excruciating moral dilemma faced each time he invades the body of an unwilling victim, David McBride fights to free himself from the situation and in the process, loses everything. When he finally loses the last shred of his humanity, he seeks revenge with surgical precision . . . and instrumentation.

About Richard Van Anderson

Richard Van Anderson is a former heart surgeon turned fiction writer. His surgery training took him from the "knife and gun club" of LSU Medical Center in Shreveport, Louisiana, to the famed Bellevue Hospital in Midtown Manhattan. His education as a writer includes an MFA in creative writing from Pine Manor College in Boston, Massachusetts. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington, with his wife and two sons.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Edison on May 10, 2015

REVIEW The Organ Takers by Richard Van Anderson Paces the narrative so well, the reader's pulse rises and falls with the action— Just finished reading THE ORGAN TAKERS by Richard Van Anderson. This is a very good novel, a surgical thriller as the author terms it. It's a suspenseful tale of good surgeo......more

Goodreads review by Viviane on January 11, 2015

David McBride lost his medical license because of remaining silent about an ethical violation; his silence was deemed to be innocent in one sense but complicit in another. So now he works as a lab tech, doing surgery on animals for a wretched salary. His wife has been supportive but she’s beginning......more

Goodreads review by Bill on January 24, 2015

First things first, this is book one of a trilogy. Even though there are quite a few loose ends, you don’t feel like everything has been left unresolved when you get to the end of the book. I like some sort of closure in a first book of a series. If I don’t get that, I just am kind of put off. The O......more

Goodreads review by Karen on May 01, 2016

I think I heard about this novel on Book Bub and bought it on sale. Don't let the 2 week reading time fool you. I was on vacation and for some reason thought I would actually read a book while I was traveling, lol. The Organ Takers: A Novel of Surgical Suspense was a fast-paced and fairly well writt......more

Goodreads review by Louise on December 27, 2014

BOOK SYNOPSIS: Failed surgeon David McBride is in exile from the surgical community after making a costly error in judgment. Down but not out, he perseveres and is given a second chance to establish a career in surgery. But, as McBride stands on the threshold of a new life, the malignant underside of......more

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List