The Society

A New York Times BestsellerPalmer delivers a relentless thriller that slices to our deepest fears with surgical precision - a tale as timely as it is terrifying, as harrowing as it is plausible. Welcome to The Society. At the headquarters of Boston's Eastern Quality Health, the CEO has been brutally murdered. She's not the first to die - nor the last - at the hands of a vicious serial killer who is targeting high-profile executives in the managed-care industry. Dr. Will Grant, a dedicated surgeon, is outraged by a system that cares more about the bottom line than the patients. Determined to reclaim his profession from the profiteers who control the delivery of care, he has attracted a dangerous zealot who'll stop at nothing to make Will his ally. In danger of being removed from her first big case, rookie detective Patty Moriarity has no choice but to risk trusting Will - knowing he may well be the killer she is hunting. Michael Palmer, M.D., spent twenty years as a full-time practitioner of internal and emergency medicine, and is now an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society's physician health program Palmer is the author of Miracle Cure, Critical Judgment, Silent Treatment, Natural Causes, Extreme Measures, Flashback, Side Effects, and The Sisterhood His books have been translated into thirty languages