Michael Palmer’s novel The society [ISBN 0 09 946357 1] starts off well – smart and pacy, with lots of action introducing a serial killer targeting executives in the American healthcare industry. The plot is just too complicated which leads to action fatigue long before I got to the halfway mark .
Michael Palmer’s novel The society [ISBN 0 09 946357 1] starts off well – smart and pacy, with lots of action introducing a serial killer targeting executives in the American healthcare industry. The plot is just too complicated which leads to action fatigue long before I got to the halfway mark .
The serial killer is targeting healthcare professionals, and our her, Dr Will Grant, founder member of the Hippocrates Society, formed to protect the profession from the Healthcare agencies, becomes both a suspect and a possible victim. Nobody appears to be on his side, though detective Patty Moriaty eventually comes round.
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