Year: 2014
Editorial: Planeta
Literary Category: police, black and suspense
Language: Español, Catalán
ISBN: 9788408122913
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Published at: DTV (Germany), Global Group Holdings (China), Simon & Schuster (USA), Orion (UK), Sonia Draga (Poland), Matica Makedonska (Macedonia), Laguna (Serbia).
Synopsis: The prestigious neurosurgeon David Evans faces a terrible dilemma: if his next patient comes out alive from the operating table, his little daughter Julia will die at the hands of psychopath.
A desperate countdown begins for Dr. Evans when he discovers that the patient that must die so that his daughter lives is none other than the President of the United States. With his usual deftness in the literature of intrigue, Juan Gómez-Jurado immediately seizes the reader. A passionate and gripping novel that takes place in sixty-tree frantic hours, which does not let up and presents a moral dilemma that can change the course of history.
“In Tipping Point Juan Gomez-Jurado has delivered a roller coaster ride of fear and excitement unparalleled in modern fiction. Imagine holding in your hands the decision between the death of your own child versus the President of the United States. An intimate and astonishing view of life inside the Washington DC world.” Katherine Neville, NY Times and #1 international bestselling author of THE EIGHT
“Juan Gómez-Jurado demonstrates that with El Paciente, his riskiest wager yet, his realm is the thriller” ABC Magazine
“A frenetic 63 hour race full of moral shortcuts”. El Mundo
“Moving, frantic, spectacular”. RNE
“There is no better movie theater than the pages of El Paciente” MasLeer
