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Technothriller. Japanese detective stumbles onto deployment of military robots. Cutting-edge technology. Fast read.

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“Innovative, fast-paced, and superbly written, this I,robot is honestly better than both of those stories [Isaac Asimov’s book or Will Smith’s movie] put together...
I,robot is a mesmerizing read with memorable characters, great dialogue, believable technology, and wonderful action."
March/April 2008 ForeWord Magazine

"I, robot is deftly written and will grab you from first page to last while holding links to Asimov's tale...Highly recommended for science fiction fans and community library collections."
May 2008 Midwest Book Review

"Deliberately drawing on the title of the late Isaac Asimov's classic work of robot-centered literature (I, Robot ), Smith brings robots into the 21st century, incorporating today's technology while retaining the spirit of Asimov's seminal world. As both homage and a sf adventure, this title belongs in most libraries."
Library Journal 9/15/2008

‘I, robot’ Is An Enthralling Technothriller by Betty Lou Roselle
"While I found the movie entertaining, Howard S. Smith’s story is so much more than that and should appeal to everyone, not just avid science fiction readers like myself."
July 30, 2008 Journal Register Company

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Technothriller. A top heart surgeon, kidnapped, seduced, threatened with an unspeakable loss -- all to make him perform a forbidden procedure. Cutting-edge technology. Fast read.

John A. Elefteriades, M.D. is Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Yale University. He is author of House Officer Guide to ICU Care , Your Heart: An Owner's Guide , Acute Aortic Disease , and The Women's Heart: An Owner's Guide

Pulitzer Prize awarded to Wall Street Journal series highlighting Dr. Elefteriades' research.

"Heart-rending, intriguing medical mystery. The most difficult challenges in medical care are not the result of technical advances, they are the result of the intense human commitments and moral dilemmas that these advances make possible." --Harold W. Baillie, Provost, University of Scranton

"TRANSPLANT is a compulsive pleasure.

Brilliant heart surgeon Athan Carras is in midlife
crisis and is tempted by a ruthless billionaire to do
the unthinkable. Seduction becomes coersion in this
fast-paced thriller that cuts to core questions of ethics
in modern medicine."

-- Robert Picardo
Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) also known as The Doctor, Star Trek: Voyager

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"A gripping tale of violence and intrigue set within the world of transplant
surgery, Dr. Elefteriades makes abstract ethical questions about life and death
bristle with urgency. This is a skilled and accurate depiction of heart
transplant and a horrifying scenario that could occur when money and power join
forces."

Mariell Jessup MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Heart Failure/Transplant program
University of Pennsylvania

Although it's fiction, the ethical issues in this novel are real. ..John Elefteriades, M.D., the chief of cardiac surgery at Yale University, explores one such issue in a new novel, "Transplant." The story unfolds around a wealthy businessman whose dying son needs a heart transplant. If money were no object, where would you draw the line in acquiring lifesaving medical treatment for a loved one?

USA Weekend, April 26, 2009 -- Tedd Mitchell, M.D.

What would happen if an individual wanted to donate an organ that wasn't paired?

Connecticut Post, May 3, 2009 -- Joe Meyers

"I read Transplant, and it’s just terrific—a page-turning thriller with compelling characters, vivid medical science, tough ethical questions, and emotional heft!"

James Bundy
Dean of the Yale School of Drama

April 18, 2009: Available at select booksellers in USA and Canada

April 14 2009 -- Dr. John Elefteriades will be on the Faith Middleton Show, WNPR radio in Connecticut discussing his new book Transplant (Click here to listen. Please move pointer to 33:10 to listen to Dr. Elefteriades.)

April 20-22 -- Dr. John Elefteriades' Transplant will be the IBPA booth at the London Book Fair. Come by to examine the book and to meet Dr. John Elefteriades himself!!

April 26 2009 -- Dr. John Elefteriades and his new book Transplant will be featured in the actual USA Weekend magazine reaching 50 million readers

April 26 2009 - Ad in New York Times Book Review

April 27, interview on Vinnie&Company, Sirius Satellite Radio national morning show

April 27, booksigning at Partners&Crime Booksellers in Manhattan
(click on the poster to download a high resolution printable poster)

May 2009 -- A feature on Transplant will run in the May 2009 issue of The Big Thrill, the online newsletter of The International Thriller Writers Association

May 3, 2009 -- A feature on Transplant ran in Connecticut's largest paper -- The Connecticut Post
Click to read first page second page

May 7, 2009 -- RJ Julia Independent Booksellers in Madison, CT -- World-renowned doctor and chief of cardiac surgery at Yale University Dr. John Elefteriades presents Transplant, his fiction debut and a fast paced medical thriller that will make your heart stop.

May 28-31 -- Dr. John Elefteriades' Transplant will be the IBPA booth #2959 at BEA 2009. Come by to examine the book and to meet Dr. John Elefteriades himself!!

SATURDAY 3:30 - 4:30 at BEA 2009 -- Go to Table 20 in the Autographing Area to meet Dr. Elefteriades in person and to get a signed copy of Transplant.

The Dr. Mehmet Oz Show

July 10 8:45- 9:15 AM -- Dr. John Elefteriades and his new book Transplant will be featured on Dr. Oz' nationally syndicated radio show.

July 18, 2009 -- Dr. John Elefteriades will be at the Barnes and Noble, Yale Bookstore, 77 Broadway in New Haven on July 18 at 1:00PM. Tel. no: 203-787-5555.

October 6 at 6:30PM. -- Dr. John Elefteriades will be at theKips Bay Branch of The New York Public Library

Review in upcoming issue of Cardiology:

TRANSPLANT by John A. Elefteriades, MD

An ageless paradox in medicine allows society to define boundaries for physicians and scientists while quietly encouraging them to push the limits of technology and avant-garde therapies. In “Transplant,” John Elefteriades unravels the seemingly ethereal world of heart transplantation down to its lucid core of competing forces: empathy and self-preservation; denial and acceptance; fortitude and desperation; life and death.

The reader experiences these complexities through the eyes of Dr. Athan Carras, an eminent cardiac surgeon charged with reconciling the moral dichotomies that surround transplantation every day. But if you anticipate a predictable, colorless account of medical ethics, think again; “Transplant” is a20textured and provocative thriller that examines every dimension of the surgeon’s ethos, encompassing his personal relationships, professional responsibilities, unspoken passions, and palpable temptations. We may convince ourselves that physicians disengage from their private lives to maintain objectivity in medicine, but this novel illustrates the reality that personal experiences are inextricably intertwined with professional conduct.

In that context, Dr. Elefteriades invites us inside the world of a cardiac surgeon, which could only be believable when constructed by someone who stops and starts the heart of a patient each day, balancing a life in his hands to attempt to improve or prolong it. What happens when this noble commitment is targeted by the seduction of power and privilege? It allows the author to weave a seamless tale that begins inside Operating Room 15 in New Haven, Connecticut, and ends off of the southern coast of the United States in international waters.

Although the main character believes that his a priori concern has always been the welfare of his patients, he is rapidly confronted with a vortex of personal conflicts and ethical dilemmas that would threaten any moral foundation. It is a superb creation of medical fiction that offers a thus far unprecedented clinical scenario, yet it is an entirely plausible one that medical professionals could encounter any day.

You may find that you choose to pace yourself throughout this book to savor the dulcet prose and to digest the compelling plot, and you will have to accept the disappointment that is obliged when the author shifts to a parallel storyline with you fully entangled in the grips of the current one. Dr. Elefteriades offers just enough suspense with each passage to keep the pages turning and the pace quickening until you arrive at the climactic conclusion; this is where power and v ulnerability, protagonist and antagonist, survival and defeat will become decidedly less distinguishable. When you find yourself here, you will realize that your definition and interpretation of “Primum, non nocere” or “First, do no harm” has abruptly been turned upside down. And, in fact, this is just where the author wants you to be.

As reviewed by Emily A. Farkas, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Saint Louis University

December, 2010: Howard S. Smith's I,robot2

by Howard S. Smith
Illustrated by Kathy Harestad
390 pp. 6 x 9 TRADE PAPERBACK SRP US$17.95
ISBN 9781894689083

Transplant - Acclaimed medical thriller by John A. Elefteriades, MD -- scroll below to see more!!

July 10 8:45- 9:15 AM -- Dr. John Elefteriades and his new book Transplant will be featured on Dr. Oz' nationally syndicated radio show.

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