From The Sisterhood, Michael Palmer's first New York Times bestseller, to The Patient, his ninth, reviewers have proclaimed him a master of medical suspense. Recognized around the world for original, topical, nail-biting suspense, emergency physician Palmer'swork has been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Now he reaches controversial and startling new heights in a terrifying tale of cutting-edge microbiology, unbridled...

San Diego police detective Finbar Brendan Finnegan and two female investigators--an environmental crimes cop from the District Attorney's Office and a U.S. Navy investigator--try to make sense of a conspiracy involving deadly toxic waste and a theft of U.S. Navy goods.

Chaz Perrone might be the only marine scientist in the world who doesn't know which way the Gulf Stream runs. He might also be the only one who went into biology just to make a killing, and now he's found a way -- doctoring water samples so that a ruthless agribusiness tycoon can continue illegally dumping fertilizer into the endangered Everglades. When Chaz suspects that his wife, Joey, has figured out his scam, he pushes her overboard from a cruise...

"Boston, 1985. With the late December cold comes a new job for ex-military operative turned private investigator Andy Roark. Boston judge Ambrose Messer is being blackmailed, and he needs Roark's help to stop the culprit. Messer is judging the bench trial of a chemical company accused of knowingly dumping chemical waste in an unsafe manner, causing birth defects and cancer. The evidence against them is overwhelming, but the message from the blackmailer...

Residents of a mining town discover an unfortunate chemical spill that has caused hundreds of spiders to mutate overnight to the size of SUV's. It is up to the townspeople to rid the small town of these giant spiders.

Lisa convinces the locals to clean up the polluted Lake Springfield after a crowd of fans sink the Green Day concert stage. Meanwhile, Homer saves a pig from being killed in Krusty Burger and adopts it, calling the animal Spider Pig. After two days, Spider Pig fills up a silo with its excrement and not knowing what else to do, Homer dumps the silo in the lake, polluting it. The angry population forces the Simpsons to move to Alaska. Meanwhile, the...

A nerdy, emaciated janitor at the local health club becomes brutal vigilante The Toxic Avenger when a gang of thugs throw him into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.

Two brothers travel to Georgia where they discover a town whose inhabitants are exposed to toxic waste that turns them into zombies.