<p><b>A riveting debut thriller from one of New York's most eminent surgeons,&#160;<i>Night Harvest&#160;</i>follows the bizarre disappearance of patients from a Manhattan hospital into the murky underground of the city.</b><br><br>Fourth-year medical student Demetri Makropolis has been assigned to cover orthopedics at Eastside Medical Center, one of New York City&#8217;s finest hospitals. Just as his surgery team begins to operate on New York&#8217;s leading drama critic, F. J. Pervis III, the patient suddenly goes into cardiac arrest. The team fails to resuscitate him, so the corpse is moved to the hospital&#8217;s morgue. But before the autopsy is even performed, the body vanishes from the morgue and mysteriously reappears a day later-with the brain surgically removed. Even more disturbing is the medical examiner&#8217;s discovery: Pervis was still alive when the ghostly craniotomy was performed.</p><p>With their reputation at stake, the hospital assigns NYPD&#8217;s Detective Patrick McManus to the case; meanwhile, Demetri learns of an eerily similar century-old unsolved mystery that leads him to an enigmatic figure lurking in the bowels of the medical center. With Pervis as his experiment, the perpetrator initiates a chain reaction of chaos and murder in Manhattan.</p><p>A gripping tale filled with ambition, romance, jealousies, and black humor,&#160;<i>Night Harvest</i>&#160;is a thrilling ride that culminates in the long-abandoned elaborate network of subterranean rooms and corridors that still lie beneath present-day Manhattan.</p>