{ "item_title" : "The Patient Hours", "item_author" : [" Nader Ben "], "item_description" : "She went to her doctor for help carrying less. They used her to carry something else entirely.Chicago. A locked office on the fourteenth floor of a NorthMichigan Avenue clinic. A psychiatrist found dead in his chairat three in the morning, a half-drunk cup of chamomile tea onthe table beside him. The medical examiner rules it a cardiacevent. Clean. Plausible. Final.Sylvia Vance doesn't believe it. She hires Mara Voss.Mara is a former FBI forensic psychologist who left the Bureauthree years ago under circumstances she hasn't fully explained -not to anyone else, and not entirely to herself. She worksChicago now as an unlicensed private investigator, buildingcases the way she always has: from the outside in, thedocumentary record first, the human cost alongside it.What she finds in the clinic files doesn't look like a murder.It looks like a research program. Six patients. Evening sessionsoff the record. A supplement protocol that does more than reduceinflammation. And a recurring gap in each patient's memory -always a Tuesday, always the same window of hours - that everyone of them has filed under the treatment working.The treatment was working. Just not the way they thought.As Mara moves through the lives of six Chicagoans who havebeen used - without their knowledge, without their consent - asinstruments of a federal program designed to protect athirty-one-million-dollar procurement fraud, she begins tounderstand the full shape of what she is dealing with. Theprogram is more sophisticated than any of its subjects know.The people behind it have significant resources and ademonstrated willingness to use them. And one of the six - theone the program was most carefully built around - is stillcarrying something she cannot access, cannot name, and cannotyet resist.The trigger is a phrase. The phrase is three words.The Patient Hours is a psychological thriller aboutinstitutional betrayal, cognitive manipulation, and what itcosts to hold a door closed from the inside. It is about thepeople who came for help and were used. The people who triedto fix what they had built and ran out of time. And theinvestigator who builds the case that has been waiting -patient, precise, and inevitable - for someone to carry it.Perfect for fans of Tana French, S.J. Watson,and A.J. Finn.―――The Mara Voss FilesBook 1: The Patient Hours - Available Now Book 2: What the Silence Keeps - Coming Soon Book 3: Every Version of You - Coming Soon", "item_img_path" : "https://covers4.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/835/9798198352315_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "15.99", "online_price" : "15.99", "our_price" : "15.99", "club_price" : "15.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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