Miracle Cure (novel)

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Miracle Cure
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First edition
Author Harlan Coben
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Mystery, Thriller
PublisherBritish Amer Pub LTD
Publication date
1991
Media typePrint (Hardback, Paperback)
Pages391

Miracle Cure is the second novel by American crime writer, Harlan Coben. The novel was first published in 1991, and was reissued by Signet in 2011. [1]

Contents

Plot summary

The plot concerns a clinic that treats people with AIDS. Just as the scientists working there are on the brink of a breakthrough they create a cure for the disease, one of them dies. Initially it looks like suicide but after a journalist investigates, she finds that it is murder, and there is a killer targeting the patients of the clinic as well.

Story Line

The main story line follows the country's most telegenic couple, TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York's hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. Their family and social connections tie them to the highest echelons of the political, medical, and sports worlds- threads that will tangle them up in one of the most controversial and deadly issues of our time. In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a divisive and devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. One by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer. And now Michael has been diagnosed with the disease. There's only one cure, but many ways to die. . .

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References

  1. Coben, Harlan. "Miracle Cure". Harlan Coben. Retrieved 2023-06-15.