The Patient

3 Cassettes, 5 hours 15 minutesRead by Lisa HarrowHis name is ARTIE, a miracle of bio-engineering that is about to transform the field of neurosurgery.  Dr. Jessie Copeland knows him better than anyone else at Eastern Mass Medical Center- and knows it's too soon to be using the tiny robot on a living patient's brain.  But, Jessie's department chief is too busy to worry about such ethics.  And neither of them has any idea that ARTIE will attract a patient from their worst nightmares.Claude Malloche is a master assassin, more rumor than man, for whom murder is an art.  No one can identity his face.  Now Malloche has a deadly brain tumor, and he intends to have the best neurosurgeon in the world operate on it.To ensure Jessie's cooperation, Malloche has devised a plan of intimidation that puts at risk her life and the lives of hundreds of innocent people.  Neurosurgery requires nerves of steel, but in coming up with a scheme to fulfill her oath as a doctor while thwarting a diabolical killer, Jessie will be performing the most complex surgery of her career- on a knife-edge of terror.