Host – Peter James

Joe hung up, deeply upset by the call. All her anger had gone and she had just sounded wounded. He went back to the nursing- station desk and waited for the anaesthetist. The clock on the wall said 9.55. Almost ten minutes since Juliet had died and every one of those minutes counted, every second, because when the heart stopped pumping, the blood immediately began coagulating and clotting; if starved of oxygen from its blood supply, the brain’s electrical circuitry would cease, and the synaptic connections with their chemical encoding would slowly start breaking down.

It was vital to keep Juliet’s circulation going so that the chemicals that would preserve her tissues from being damaged by ice crystals could be properly introduced and distributed throughout her body. The Cryonite volunteer operator who answered Roland Dance’s call should be able to confirm Juliet’s aneurism to him and her instructions, as well as immediately contact the girl’s own doctor and have him call the anaesthetist.

In theory there should not be a problem – but, it only took one obstructive person to blow the whole thing. And Dance was crassly obstructive. When he came back, almost ten minutes later, his face was stiff; he held his chin high and peered hostilely at Joe down the end of his nose. ‘You want an operating theatre, is that right?’ Dance said.

‘You want an HLR? What else of my bloody equipment and staff do you need for this hare-brained nonsense? She’s dead – can’t you at least leave her in peace? The dead have a right to some dignity, you know.’ ‘Did you ever see a corpse look dignified during an autopsy?’ Joe retorted. Dance glared at him and Joe regretted the remark, knowing he needed as much co-operation as possible. ‘Operating Theatre Number Five,’ the anaesthetist said. ‘We’d be obliged if you’d leave it tidy when you’ve finished.’

Joe was surprised that he had given in so easily – and that he was actually going to let them use a theatre, which he did not have to do. ‘Thank you, that’s very kind.’ ‘Nothing to do with me,’ Dance said. ‘I’ve been overruled. It appears the request, and consent from our Director, is already on the hospital’s computer, and we’re charging your – ah – Cryonite company for the facility. So we do at least get some benefit from this charade,’ he added tartly.

Joe looked away from him, suppressing a grin. Had Juliet done that in preparation? Hacked into the hospital computer sometime before she’d collapsed, maybe even weeks ago, in preparation? The thought cheered him considerably. Half an hour later Joe stood gowned up in a blue scrub suit in Operating Theatre Five.

Praise for Peter James ‘Peter James has found his own literary niche, somewhere between Stephen King and Michael Crichton’ Mail on Sunday ‘Gripping . . . plotting is ingenious . . . in its evocation of how a glossy cocoon of worldly success can be unravelled by one bad decision it reminds me of Tom Wolfe’s Bonfire of the Vanities’ The Times ‘Probably James’s finest novel to date.

I have not read a work so focused and intense in its depiction of the classic Orwellian nightmare’ Shivers ‘A thought-provoking menacer that’s completely technological and genuinely frightening about the power of future communications Time Out ‘James has been compared with Stephen King, but in many ways he’s better’ Daily Express ‘An awesome talent . . . one of the few writers working in the genre today whose work is always a pleasure to read and a disappointment to finish’ Starburst ‘A well-paced thriller that delivers maximum emotional tor ture’ Chicago Tribune ‘This compulsive story is a tale of the search for immortality .

. . I cannot remember when I last read a novel I enjoyed so much’ Sunday Telegraph OceanofPDF.com By Peter James Dead Letter Drop Atom Bomb Angel Billionaire Possession Dreamer Sweet Heart Twilight Prophecy Alchemist Host The Truth Denial Faith Dead Simple Looking Good Dead Not Dead Enough Dead Man’s Footsteps Dead Tomorrow CHILDREN’S NOVEL Getting Wired!

OceanofPDF.com Peter James was educated at Charterhouse and then at film school. He lived in North America for a number of years, working as a screenwriter and film producer returning to England. His novels, including the number-one bestseller Possession, have been translated into thirty languages and three have been filmed. All his novels reflect his deep interest in the world of the police, with whom he does in-depth research, as well as science, medicine, and the paranormal.

He has recently produced several films, including the The Merchant Of Venice, starring Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons and Joseph Fiennes. He also co-created the hit Channel 4 series Bedsitcom, which was nominated for a Rose d’Or. He is currently, as coproducer, developing his Roy Grace novels for television with ITV Productions. Peter James won the Krimi-Blitz 2005 Crime Writer of the Year award in Germany, and Dead Simple won both the 2006 Prix Polar International award and the 2007 Prix Coeur Noir award in France.

Looking Good Dead was shortlisted for the 2007 Richard and Judy Crime Thriller of the Year award, France’s SNCF and Le Grand Prix de Littérature award.

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