| “A Master
of the suspense genre” – Rave Review
“Nothing Personal is a realistically frightening
medical thriller that, like the works of Cook,
will makes readers think twice before checking
into a hospital. Eileen Dreyer keeps the audience
on the edge as the reader tries to figure out
what will happen next. This spine-tingling suspense
thriller has some quirky but realistic secondary
characters (a Dreyer trademark) that add just
the right amount of humor to keep this nuclear-hot
novel from a meltdown.” Harriet Klausner
4 ½ Stars Affair de Coeur
“Readers will certainly get their money’s
worth from this book. Not only is it a page turner,
but its earthy portrayal of life in a large hospital
stays in the mind. Dreyer takes the reader right
into the midst of what it is like to be both worker
and patient in the critical care area, all done
with a healthy dose of humor.” The Drood
Review of Mystery
“NOTHING PERSONAL is a complex novel filled
with heart-stopping suspense, ironic humor, and
some hard-edged truths about the current medical
system that are guaranteed to keep you on the
edge of your seat to the very last page.”
RT Magazine 4 ½ Stars
“NOTHING PERSONAL has everything that one
could ask for-a fast-moving plt, a dandy murder
mystery, and a cast of eccentric characters that
are reminiscent of inmates in an asylum. Eileen
Dreyer blends just enough romance into her psychological
thriller to produce a first class reading experience.”
Harriet Klausner
PROLOGUE
On February 20, Kate Manion had the chance to
see her hospital from the other side. It was an
opportunity she hoped never to have again.
Kate was a critical-care nurse, one of those
purposeful, talented people always dressed in
scrubs and lab coat, a stethoscope slung around
her neck and pockets filled with penlights, scissors,
and trauma-scale charts, who walked through an
emergency department with the purpose of MacArthur
stepping out of the water at Leyte. Which Kate
did. At least until she ended up on her head in
a ditch alongside Highway 44 with an ambulance
and a candy-apple-red Firebird wrapped around
her.
If it had been her Mustang, somebody might have
blamed Kate. After all, she did drive it fast—often
a little too fast. But that was what Mustangs
were for. Besides, Kate was a good driver. She
knew all the quirks and eccentricities of her
car better than her ex-husband had known hers.
Kate would never have let her car land in a ditch.
But Kate wasn't driving either vehicle. The guy
driving the Firebird would have been arrested
on the spot for driving under the influence and
vehicular manslaughter, if he'd lived long enough
for the cops to get handcuffs on him. By the time
that determination was made, though, Kate was
already on her way to the medical center in critical
condition with chest and head injuries.
Within an hour, Kate was in surgery to repair
the small laceration she'd suffered to her aorta
and the clots she'd collected on her brain from
the depressed skull fracture. She had tubes stuck
into her chest to re-expand her collapsed lungs,
a tube in her trachea to help her breathe, one
in her stomach to drain away any digestive juices
that could compromise her breathing ability, and
another in her bladder to make sure her urine
was clear and neatly collected. She had three
large-bore IVs in her, one in each arm and one
in her subclavian vein, to replace fluids and
electrolytes; an arterial line; an intracranial
pressure sensor to measure the potential threat
to her brain; a Swan Ganz pump to measure her
blood volume and cardiac output, and a blood pump
to reinfuse her with the red cells she was losing
through those chest tubes. And with all that in,
she still managed to make hospital history. On
February 24, Kate Manion became the only intensive-care
patient in medical center memory to successfully
kill her nurse.
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