Dr. Richard Kimble is accused in the murder of his wife. When his train crashes en route to Death Row, Kimble breaks free from the custody of Lt. Philip Gerard, and runs for his life. Fleeing from town to town, switching identities and toiling at countless jobs fuels Kimble's obsession to catch the real killer - a one-armed man he saw leaving the crime scene. His obsession is matched only by Gerard's - who blames himself for Kimble's escape and who...

Este libro es la reconstruccion amorosa, paciente y detallada de un pesonaje. a traves de este, es tambien el recuerdo de la barbarie de una epoca, de una ciudad, de unos rituales familiars, ademas de la evocacion melancolica de la ninez y la iniciacion en el mundo del propio narrador. Esta lleno de sonrisas y de amargura, canta el placer de vivir pero tambien muestra el rictus de tristeza y rabiaque provoca el vil asesinato de este hermoso personaje,...

"The compelling story of the hunt for Aribert Heim, whose decades-long flight from justice turned a mid-level SS officer and concentration camp doctor into the most wanted Nazi war criminal in the world Dr. Aribert Heim worked at the Mauthausen concentration camp for only a few months in 1941 but left a horrifying mark on the memories of survivors. According to their testimony, Heim euthanized patients with injections of gasoline into their hearts....

Dr. Phibes returns from the dead in his ongoing quest for reincarnation for his beloved bride and immortality for himself.

A kind and well-respected doctor is transformed into a murderous madman by taking a secret drug of his own creation.

"Offers a graphic novelization of a profile of Hector Abad Gómez, a doctor whose criticism of the Colombian regime led to his murder by paramilitaries in 1987."--

"[This book] tells the story of the discovery of insulin, a treatment for [diabetes] and one of the . . . milestones in medical science. Frederick Banting was a young doctor who was haunted by the memories of the diabetic children he'd treated at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. One night, though, he was struck by inspiration--would it be possible to isolate the mysterious secretions of the pancreas (what we now call insulin) and use this substance...