Murder Ward - Destroyer, No 15 Author:Warren Murphy, Richard Sapir Death Doctors! They can be more efficient doctors than a host of gunmen. They have the opportunity to commit perfect crimes, and usually their colleagues will not testify against them. When their patients die, all they do is apologize to the relatives of the deceased and attribute the loss to heart failure -- it is true that the heart stops when... more » a person dies, whatever the cause. It's a profitable occupation, until the wrong person is killed.
Then Remo and Chiun are sent in, to find out how -- and why -- she died. Chiun doesn't like sick people; he thinks that illness is caused by poor training and lack of moral control. What else can you expect of Westerners and their incredible eating habits? Remo's been in hospitals before -- hospitals CURE put him in -- and he's even more cynical about medical science. When Remo faces the deadliest doctor of them all, who exposes him to a rare and usually fatal virus, it's up to Chiun to diagnose the disease. He treats it the only way he knows how -- with murder.« less