Gravity

By Tess Gerritsen,

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Top Ten bestselling author Tess Gerritsen delivers a thoroughly menacing new thriller. A brilliantly compulsive page-turner from the author of The Surgeon.

Dr Emma Watson, a brilliant research physician, has been training for the mission of a lifetime: to study living organisms in space. Jack McCallum, Emma's estranged husband, has…

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2 authors picked Gravity as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Many medical thrillers are set in a hospital or similar setting, but this one is, I believe, the only one set on the International Space Station.

I found it so scary to experience one catastrophe after another in a place where access to help is so far away. I also loved the unique combination of medical science and space science, something that is rarely seen in thriller fiction.

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I have a prejudiced preference for physician writers and the insightful medical fantasies they (we) write about. In her novel Gravity, Tess Gerritsen inspired my own imagination for the writing of my book. Her extensive background research is evident in the out-of-this-world gory scenes that leaves no doubt of the plausibility of a deadly microbe.  

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