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Harvest | 
 enlarge | Author: Gerritsen Tess
Publisher: Non Basic Stock Line
Category: Book
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Rating:  17 reviews
Sales Rank: 474381
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Edition: Reissue
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 6.3 x 4.2 x 1
ISBN: 067155302X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780671553029
ASIN: 067155302X
Publication Date: August 31, 1997
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 Pager turner April 28, 2008
Mrs. S. I. Morgan (Osnabruck, Germany)
This really was a page turner for me, i really could't put it down. The plot was brilliant, the characters were so well developed! I have read a few Tess books, and this must be one of the best! I know this was one of her first, but it really is that good! I look forward to reading more of her work, if the reviews are correct that her newer stuff is even better.
 Clone of a 1970s Robin Cook potboiler December 23, 2007
J. Bowen (Hampstead London)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't know how many people actually read these reviews, or if those that do read them remember a book by Robin Cook called "Coma." If you do, dear reader, you might remember that it came out in the 1970s and was later turned into a thriller with Genevieve Bujold and Michael Douglas. It focuses the illegal harvesting of organs by a hospital who really should know better.
Anyone who has read that book and "Harvest" by Tess Gerritsen will be struck by the similarities between the two books. I've been told that Gerritsen is a cracking author who knows how to write page turners, but having read both books, trust me when I say that Cook's is better.
one of Gerritsen's best July 3, 2007
CC7 (Berne, Switzerland)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I've only read this book recently despite having been published many years ago. I must say that, along with The Surgeon, this is one of my favorite books by this author. I didn't know it was her 1st thriller, and you certainly cannot tell by her writing. The main character, Abby, was really likeable and I could relate immediately to her. The plot is really good and is-unfortunately-credible, with comprehensive narrative despite having medical terminology. Absolutely a page-turner, I highly recommend it for a rainy day at the beach, you'll be happy to stay indoors and read this book without any interruptions!
Heart breaking June 4, 2007
one-eyed Jack (England)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Having read the six novels in Tess' `Rizzoli/Isles" series I thought I'd have a go at her earlier work, and Harvest from 1996. Another reviewer here suggests that this is her first book, but in fact it's her 12th - most of the first eleven were romantic fiction which she started writing in 1986. Anyway I was pleased to discover that Harvest is every bit as good as her more recent work, if anything it could quite easily be her latest novel and no-one would notice. I have a feeling that the experiences of central character Dr Abby DiMatteo are strongly adapted from the author's own in her previous career as a physician in Hawaii. It was a chance dinner conversation that inspired Tess to write this, her first medical thriller. The man sitting beside her at the restaurant was an ex-cop who ran a security service protecting American businessmen in Russia. On his last trip abroad, Moscow cops had told him that Russian orphans were vanishing from the streets. They believed the children were being kidnapped by the Russian mafia and shipped abroad as organ donors.
The story so horrified Tess, she immediately called her brother-in-law, a reporter for Newsweek, suggesting he investigate. Newsweek was unable to track down any proof. Weeks later, Tess was still unable to forget those missing Russian orphans. They became the inspiration for the plot of Harvest which was released in hardcover in 1996, and marked Tess's debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Film rights were sold to Paramount/Dreamworks, and the book has been translated into twenty foreign languages.
If you have enjoyed The Surgeon, and the others in that series, I'm sure you'll like Harvest too. It's unlikely to disappoint.
Heart breaking June 4, 2007
one-eyed Jack (England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Having read the six novels in Tess' `Rizzoli/Isles" series I thought I'd have a go at her earlier work, and Harvest from 1996. Another reviewer here suggests that this is her first book, but in fact it's her 12th - most of the first eleven were romantic fiction which she started writing in 1986. Anyway I was pleased to discover that Harvest is every bit as good as her more recent work, if anything it could quite easily be her latest novel and no-one would notice. I have a feeling that the experiences of central character Dr Abby DiMatteo are strongly adapted from the author's own in her previous career as a physician in Hawaii. It was a chance dinner conversation that inspired Tess to write this, her first medical thriller. The man sitting beside her at the restaurant was an ex-cop who ran a security service protecting American businessmen in Russia. On his last trip abroad, Moscow cops had told him that Russian orphans were vanishing from the streets. They believed the children were being kidnapped by the Russian mafia and shipped abroad as organ donors.
The story so horrified Tess, she immediately called her brother-in-law, a reporter for Newsweek, suggesting he investigate. Newsweek was unable to track down any proof. Weeks later, Tess was still unable to forget those missing Russian orphans. They became the inspiration for the plot of Harvest which was released in hardcover in 1996, and marked Tess's debut on the New York Times bestseller list. Film rights were sold to Paramount/Dreamworks, and the book has been translated into twenty foreign languages.
If you have enjoyed The Surgeon, and the others in that series, I'm sure you'll like Harvest too. It's unlikely to disappoint.
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