The Second Opinion

SUMMARY: Struck down by a hit-and-run driver, one of the worlds most respected doctors lies comatose in the ICU unit of Bostons Beaumont Clinic. No one thinks he will survive. Two of his children believe treatment should be stopped. But his daughter Thea refuses to give up hopeand begins to suspect a cover-up. As a brilliant physician who left the hospital to work with the poor, Thea knows all too well the hidden agendas and personal conflicts that lurk beneath the surface of an elite medical center. When a late-night hospital intruder is identified as a professional killer, Thea is convinced her fathers accident was no accidentand someone plans to finish the job...Who would want to kill a man who saves livesand why? The answers, Thea fears, are locked deep inside the mind of the only living witnessher fathera man who cannot move or speak. Until the flutter of a single eyelid provides him the means to communicate...and offers Thea a terrifying glimpse into an unfathomable conspiracy. ϡ쯦랠