Silent Treatment by Palmer, Michael - 1995

Bantam Books, Incorporated. Fine in Fine dust jacket 1995. Hardcover. Marfree, acidfree; not written-in, underlined, reprint/club, remainder or discard. Mail SAMEDAY! ; 9.53 x 1.31 x 6.42; 416 pages; From William Beatty - BookList: Palmer has written another winner in his usual gripping, surprise-filled manner. The story starts with the trite phrase, "The Doctor will see you now, " although readers will soon comprehend the blood-curdling subtext. Next, four diners at the Jade Restaurant succumb to food poisoning and are hospitalized. One of them turns out to be Ron Farrell, an insurance company executive; a mysterious figure visits him, and he soon dies. Then Harry Corbett, severely wounded in Vietnam and now a doctor at Manhattan Medical Center, visits his wife, Evie, just before an operation on her brain aneurysm. He goes to get her a milkshake and returns just after she inexplicably expires. Although Harry does not know it, Evie had a second life as Desiree, a high-priced call girl who was also a reporter on the verge of publishing a shocking expose. It seems that the Roundtable, a small group of insura .