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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | April 7, 2023 · 5:00 am

Particles in the Air Blitz

A Dr. Mallory Hayes Medical Thriller

Thriller, Medical Thriller

Date Published: January 2023

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In the wake of a natural disaster, a new pandemic is unleashed…

Dr. Mallory Hayes, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
medical investigator, is a committed physician and researcher quietly
battling height and air-flight anxiety. When a tsunami devastates the
coast of Southern California, the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA) establishes a camp to house the tens of thousands of people
displaced by the disaster, and the Army is brought in to provide medical
services.

Mallory is dispatched to the camp by the CDC to prevent the potential
spread of disease from contaminated water. What she discovers is far worse
than anything she could have imagined—an accelerated HIV-like virus,
and a common, everyday microbe, are proving to be extremely deadly.

Particles in the Air is a shockingly realistic tale only an immunologist
could write—a tense, high-concept thriller meant to appeal to fans
of A.G Riddle, Michael Crichton, Terry Hayes, Richard Preston, and
others.

About the Author

Jenna Podjasek, MD, is an Allergist/Immunologist who trained at Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.

She lives with her husband, two children, and numerous pets in the
suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.

PARTICLES IN THE AIR is her first novel (more to come!).

Follow Dr. Podjasek on Twitter @JennaPodjasek and Instagram at
@JennaPodjasekauthor.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | May 30, 2022 · 5:00 am

Every Third Night Blitz

Medical Thriller

Date Published: January 10, 2022

Publisher: ‎
MindStir Media

“Every Third Night” is an eye-opening yet poignant story that is
set in a busy, dehumanizing and unyielding New York City residency program
in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1984. It brings the reader into the real
world of medicine at a time of limited supervision and brutal duty hours
through the vantage points of young physicians enduring stressful conflicts
and volatile relationships.

Protagonist and chief resident Jimmy Zito seemingly has it all- brilliant
clinical skills, handsome, a talented teacher, and a gorgeous girlfriend to
boot- but a troubled past and a rash of new conflicts leave him struggling
to survive in this, his last month of training. He desperately tries to
guide his fellow residents through their own personal traumas, but is not
nearly as well equipped to handle the pressure as others might think,
especially considering the toxic and exhaustive work schedule, unchecked
aberrant behavior of attending physicians, and the highly competitive and
emotional demands of Ob-Gyn.

Intern Henry Deluca grapples with the consequences of a horrific surgical
complication that he feels responsible for. Co-chief resident Greta
Greenberg struggles with her personal dilemma in a busy abortion clinic.
Best friend Mike O’Rourke is driven to madness by an unreasonable superior’s
callousness concerning a dying patient with ovarian cancer. And Kim Clark,
Jimmy’s occult but obvious love interest, is at wits end after constantly
being tortured by her sadistic Chairman. Jimmy’s ultra-needy girlfriend and
stubborn father do not make things any easier. The intertwined subplots all
mesh together and come crashing down when an unexpected, dramatic and
haunting mishap leaves the program reeling and Jimmy’s life forever
transformed.

About the Author

Dr. Mitchell Maiman became a physician at age twenty-four and is now
retired. As a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynecology and sub-specialist in
Gynecologic Oncology, he has had a distinguished academic, clinical and
research career in medicine and served as both a Director of Gynecologic
Oncology and Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at major New York City
based university hospitals. He has been recognized for his numerous
educational contributions in the field and his devotion and commitment to
the teaching of residents and fellows.

Mitch lives with his wife, Dr. Judy Levy, in Long Island, New York and is
an avid tennis player and practitioner of yoga. They first met during their
residency training. This is his first novel.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | August 12, 2021 · 5:00 am

Looks that Deceive Blitz

MedAir Series, Book 1

Thriller, Medical Thriller, Crime Thriller

Publisher: Christen Haus Publishing

FREE in ebook format at all online retailers.

Two prominent medical malpractice attorneys are dead.

Can you imagine the stuff flowing downhill into Detective Lynch Cully’s lap? From his lieutenant’s office. From his chief’s office. The mayor’s office. The governor. He’s already facing the toughest case of his career: a serial assailant who leaves his victims unable to testify. Are these cases related? Has the perpetrator upped his game?

Amy Gibbs, RN is a newly recruited med-evac flight nurse who left the ER, its stress, and memories of a certain detective behind. On one fateful call, she hears the deathbed confession of a man whom police are seeking as a person of interest in the attacks.

Within hours, the lives of Amy Gibbs and Lynch Cully intertwine in a story that unravels a web of identity theft, electronic eavesdropping, and stalking amid a confusion of identities. Can Lynch move one step ahead of this killer? Or is the distraction—of a girlfriend he regrets leaving—too much?

Other Books in the MedAir Series

Rescued and Remembered

MedAir Series, Book Two

Coming back from the dead isn’t easy . . .

When you have to save the one who saved you.

The Silenced Shooter

MedAir Series, Book Three

Tired of federal gridlock?

Can you trust the federal government anymore?

Wrongfully Removed

MedAir Series, Book Four

What would you do to protect your family?

Would you stand up to the government?

A Zealot’s Destiny

MedAir Series, Book Five

Who is trying to eliminate the British Royal Family? And why? After all, the monarchy is largely ceremonial and symbolic.

Kidnapped Nation

MedAir Series, Book Six

Will the people elect the status quo?

Or is a major presidential upset in the wind?

The Khmer Connection

MedAir Series, Book Seven

What do you do? Where do you go?

. . . when the devil is right on your heels.

Resurrected Trouble

MedAir Series, Book Eight

Lynch Cully and Amy Gibbs have returned home, leaving the worst behind them in Southeast Asia. Or did they?

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About the Author

Braxton DeGarmo spent over 30 years in Emergency and Family Medicine, both in and out of the military, before retiring to focus on writing in 2014. Many of the incidents in his books are based on real occurrences, people, and experiences in his own life, such as learning to escape a water crash in a helicopter. Human trafficking, medical kidnapping, government corruption, and other social injustices have become the premises used for his stories. And the technologies described in his books are all current . . . and possible.

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by Jennifer Reed/ bookjunkiez | October 28, 2017 · 5:00 am

Gestation Seven – Blitz

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Medical Thriller

Publisher: Xlibris

Date Published: March 2017

When an experiment to reduce the gestation period of humans goes horribly wrong, three government scientists are entangled in the murder of two babies. A young reporter stumbles onto the scene and begins to investigate, unraveling all the all the secrets behind the experiment.

This in turn leads to a congressional hearing to find out why government oversight failed. Turmoil ensues, leaving one man holding the bag in a story that has readers glued to their seats.

About the Author

J. Stewart Willis, a graduate of West Point and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has had a varied life as from time in Vietnam with the173rd Airborne Brigade, sixteen years as a professor of physics at West Point, a manager with the TRW for communications projects and the Nuclear Waste Project at Yucca Mountain in Nevada and as Mayor, for nine years, of the Town of Washington, Virginia. Now he is pursuing a lifetime dream of writing fiction.

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