A CASE OF NEED is a medical thriller written by the famous author Michael Crichton. Its a superb novel written during 1960s about the medical practices generally concerning the issue of abortion. This book is published by Arrow Books, first published in the year of 1995. For this book the author had written it under the pseudonym of Jeffery Hudson.The author is famous for writing Novels like The Andromeda Strain, Jurassic Park, Congo, Timeline and is the creator of the famous television series ER. Most of his novels have been casted into motion pictures. The introduction of this book describing a brief account of the author's background while writing this book describes the horrible state of American medicine during 1960s. On this account he had based his story and for not coming to any controversy he had written it under a different name.
Like all his book, this book too danced around the fine line of fact and imagination having an important message for the society. It tells of an account of a supposed murder during abortion of an influential teenage girl and how the actual responsible person has been hunted down by a brave doctor not compromising anything except the truth. In his expedition he had to push through many astonishing medical secrets and facts while struggling with the threats to his life himself.
The total book consists of great many factual details of medical lifestyle and issues with lot many information at the appendices, as consistent with the author's practices of writing his other novels. The author background has helped this book to become more lively and true. A brush with the ongoing medical data sheds light into the pitiable condition of American medicine at that time. At the end, the author's message is clear to legalise the abortion procedure thus saving lives of thousands of women going through illegal abortion practices. A review by famous author Stephen King and Los Angeles Times confirms to the typical quality books produced by Michael Crichton.
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