For all of you Die Hard fans of Michael Crichton, this award-winning debut novel, is a mind blowing, almost impossible to put down, simply amazing piece of work, written by him shortly after completion of his medical internship. To be more precise, the initial editions of this were published under his another name that he used during those days - Jeffrey Hudson... Well to start with, the story highlights on a rich father's girl who on a Fateful Night, arrives bleeding at her family physician's clinic and then dies mysteriously on the operating table, her physician is accused of murder, raising countless questions. Was it accidental malpractice? A violation of the Hippocratic oath?? Or a cold-blooded murder??? It is then that his collegue starts investigation on his own as 'A Case of His Need' in order to prove his friend innocent... Of course in the end he is able to solve the Murder Mystery but with much difficulty... But to find how he does so and who is the main culprit and what really happened to that girl on that 'Fateful Night', you got to pick this up and see for yourself... (kooltown1607)