Michael Palmer Books in Order

Sixteen-year-old Cam Hilliard, son of the U.S. president, develops violent mood swings and baffling neurological symptoms that doctors dismiss as teen angst. Secret Service agent Karen Ray and physician Lee Blackwood link his case to another endangered teen and a threat reaching into national security.

Intensivist Julie Devereux has long argued for the right to die, but her beliefs are tested when a crash leaves her fiancé a quadriplegic begging for release. After he dies suddenly, she finds similar suspicious deaths and realizes someone is quietly deciding which patients should live.

After a devastating mistake in the operating room, neurosurgical resident Carrie Bryant quits and returns home to help her combat-veteran brother, who is crippled by PTSD. An experimental brain procedure at a VA hospital offers hope—until patients vanish and Carrie uncovers a deadly conspiracy.

A trail run gone wrong leaves Lou Welcome’s best friend hospitalized with a flesh-eating infection no antibiotic can touch. As similar cases erupt nationwide, Lou discovers an extremist group has weaponized an unstoppable germ and is using it to blackmail the country.

Washington’s “society doc” Gary McHugh wakes from an alcoholic blackout accused of murdering a powerful congressman. His only real ally is Dr Lou Welcome, who senses the evidence is too tidy and, with a determined attorney, digs into a cover-up tied to national defense.

In this short prequel, medical student Lou Welcome becomes a suspect when a beloved professor is murdered at his school. Teaming up with a fellow student who is also under suspicion, he must solve the crime before his future in medicine disappears.

When respected family doctor John Meacham suddenly opens fire in his office, killing colleagues and patients, the blame falls on Dr Lou Welcome, who once fought to restore Meacham’s license. Convinced something else triggered the massacre, Lou uncovers a plot that runs from rural clinics to the highest levels of power.

During the State of the Union address, a terrorist group unleashes a highly contagious engineered virus inside the U.S. Capitol, trapping the government in quarantine. Disgraced virologist Griffin Rhodes is offered freedom if he can find a cure in time—without betraying his own principles.

Haunted by PTSD, Dr Nick Garrity runs a mobile clinic for the homeless while searching for a missing war buddy. When psychiatric nurse Jillian Coates questions her sister’s apparent suicide, their investigations collide with a meticulous killer who makes murders look like accidents.

A financially desperate doctor is invited to join an exclusive dead club, where members bet on when unidentified patients in critical care will die. The game seems like morbid fun—until he realizes the wagers may be influencing who lives and who becomes the next victim.

Humanitarian doctor Thea Sperelakis rushes home after her legendary father is left in a coma by a supposed hit-and-run. With help from her brilliant but socially awkward brother, she uncovers a staged accident and a lethal fraud woven into their family’s cutting-edge hospital.

When President Andrew Stoddard’s personal physician vanishes, he recruits old friend Gabe Singleton, now a small-town doctor, to take the job. Inside the White House, Gabe realizes the president’s mind is failing—and evidence suggests someone may be engineering his decline.

A suspended Boston medical student shot during a trip to Brazil, a dying scientist in a remote African clinic, and a Chicago private investigator all chase clues involving missing organs and unexplained scars. Their converging trails expose a secret society reshaping the global transplant trade.

Divorced surgeons Maura and George Hill receive a note claiming their young son has been kidnapped and will die unless a celebrity patient leaves the operating room permanently scarred. As the deadline closes in, Maura searches for another way to save her child.

HMO executives are being murdered one by one, and outspoken Boston surgeon Will Grant—who fights managed-care abuses through a group called the Hippocrates Society—becomes both a target and a suspect. With rookie cop Patty Moriarity, he hunts a killer who thinks murder is reform.

Doctor Matt Rutledge returns to his West Virginia coal town determined to confront the mining company he blames for multiple deaths. As a bizarre, deadly syndrome surfaces from Chicago to Belinda, he uncovers links to an experimental supervaccine whose side effects are only now emerging.

Neurosurgeon Jessie Copeland has built a tiny robot that could revolutionize brain surgery, but it is not ready for real patients. An elusive assassin with a lethal brain tumor demands her help and threatens mass murder, forcing Jessie to weigh one life against thousands.

After past struggles with addiction, Dr Brian Holbrook gets a fresh start testing a breakthrough heart drug at a prestigious Boston institute. When patients who seemed cured start dying, he must expose what is wrong with the treatment—before it kills his own father.

In the small town of Patience, California, ER doctor Abby Dolan sees patients develop odd symptoms that explode into sudden, violent rages. Warned to stop asking questions, she risks everything to trace the syndrome to a deadly source no one wants exposed.

Dr Harry Corbett goes to visit his estranged wife on the eve of her surgery and finds her dead in her hospital bed. Branded the prime suspect, he digs into her hidden life and uncovers a killer using the health-care system as cover.

OB-GYN resident Sarah Baldwin races to save a woman whose routine labor turns catastrophic, only to learn two similar patients have already died. The one link is an herbal prenatal vitamin she prescribed, and proving otherwise may cost her career—and her life.

Ambitious young doctor Eric Najarian seems destined for success at White Memorial Hospital—until a missing corpse and a brutal abduction expose a secret clique of physicians conducting horrifying experiments. To survive, Eric must decide whether to join them or bring them down.

Eight-year-old Toby should remember nothing about his routine operation, yet he relives every cut of the scalpel in waking nightmares. Neurosurgeon Zack Iverson suspects an experimental anesthetic and a cover-up at his small-town hospital—and the next child is already on the table.

Pathologist Kate Bennet investigates a baffling illness that has killed two young women and now threatens her closest friend. As she follows the trail, she uncovers a terrifying medical discovery tied to long-buried crimes and people willing to kill again.

At Boston Doctors Hospital, patients who survive surgery are dying mysteriously in the night. When surgeon David Shelton starts to ask questions, he uncovers whispers about a secret band of nurses and a chilling plan to decide who deserves to live.