Cold Steel
By (Author) Paul Carson
Cornerstone
Arrow Books Ltd
7th January 2000
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Thriller / suspense fiction
823.914
Paperback
400
Width 110mm, Height 178mm, Spine 24mm
213g
The body of a teenage girl is found brutally stabbed in a Dublin park. It is every parent's nightmare. But for Dublin's police and politicians the nightmare is just beginning. For the dead girl is the daughter of a high-profile American heart surgeon, in Dublin to head the Mercy Hospital's new Heart Foundation. America is baying for justice. Superintendent Jim Clarke heads the investigation. His team picks up the trail of a suspect. But do they have the right man Frank Clancy, consultant haematologist to the Mercy hospital, is concerned about the deaths of two patients. When he decides to take a closer look he places his own life in terrible danger...
Paul Carson is a doctor and novelist. He lives in Dublin with his wife and two children. Final Dury, Cold Steel and Scalpel have all been hardback top ten bestsellers in Ireland, with Scalpel spending seventeen weeks at number one. His fourth novel, Ambush, has just been published by William Heinemann.