Tess Gerritsen’s The Surgeon has been updated and now comes with "Bonus Content." It looks like it is in all the major stores, with the lowest price at Kobo. This was one of the first free books I read on my Kindle and one of the first I posted about here on the blog (on 9/11/08). After reading it, I immediately went and found more books in the series to read. Even at two dollars, it's a good read at an excellent price.Update: Amazon has announced on their blog that this price is only going to be good until June 21st. I haven't tried (and probably won't), but you might even be able to get customer service to "update" your version of this book, if you got it previously, as I did. I know that I didn't get a notice that a corrected version had been posted (as I have with a few others this week), so that might not be possible. And the Bonus Content probably isn't enough to warrant an update, if you've already read the book.
You can also get an earlier version of this book for free over on Scribd, in PDF format. Just run it thru Calibre or the Amazon conversion services and you can read it on your Kindle or other reader (I wouldn't try it in PDF format, except on a DX or similar size screen).
This enhanced eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content:
- An exclusive preview chapter from Tess Gerritsen’s Ice Cold, on sale in hardcover June 29, 2010
- Rizzoli & Isles, In Their Own Words: learn more about the lead characters in these special essays written by the author
Rizzoli & Isles TV Pilot script: read pages from the script for the pilot episode of the TNT drama
In her most masterful novel of medical suspense, New York Times bestselling author Tess Gerritsen creates a villain of unforgettable evil--and the one woman who can catch him before he kills again.
He slips into their homes at night and walks silently into bedrooms where women lie sleeping, unaware of the horrors they soon will endure. The precision of the killer's methods suggests he is a deranged man of medicine, propelling the Boston newspapers and the frightened public to name him "The Surgeon."
The cops' only clue rests with another surgeon, the victim of a nearly identical crime. Two years ago, Dr. Catherine Cordell fought back and killed her attacker before he could complete his assault. Now she hides her fears of intimacy behind a cool and elegant exterior and a well-earned reputation as a top trauma surgeon.
Cordell's careful facade is about to crack as this new killer recreates, with chilling accuracy, the details of Cordell's own ordeal. With every new murder he seems to be taunting her, cutting ever closer, from her hospital to her home. Her only comfort comes from Thomas Moore, the detective assigned to the case. But even Moore cannot protect Cordell from a brilliant hunter who somehow understands--and savors--the secret fears of every woman he kills.
Filled with the authentic detail that is the trademark of this doctor turned author . . . and peopled with rich and complex characters--from the ER to the squad room to the city morgue--here is a thriller of unprecedented depth and suspense. Exposing the shocking link between those who kill and cure, punish and protect, The Surgeon is Tess Gerritsen's most exciting accomplishment yet.
Click HERE to get it for $1.99 at Amazon
Click HERE to get it for $1.99 at B&N
Click HERE to get it for $1.59 at Kobobooks (and enter their contest to get a free Kobo Reader).
Click HERE for a free PDF of the original version, at Scribd.
