Transplant is quite simply, an excellent book. A page turner from start to finish, the story focuses on a woman, Roberta, who, because she has no tissue type, is the universal donor. (A result of exposure to radiation during conception). This genetic mutation makes her organs a valued commodity. Throughout the course of the book you cannot help but feel in awe and pity for this woman, who, unforetuneatly, goes through hell, simply trying to live a normal life. This book offers not only a great read for the individual, but it's a wonderful book to discuss with others. No other book has grabbed my attention in this manner - and so many times. Definately worth reading, at least once.

The book was a great read- suspense, thrilling, and sometimes surprising. However, I got REALLY tired of every male character in the book drooling over the beautiful Dr. Blalock. A few drooling characters would get the point across. ALL of the males drooling got real old real fast. The love interest part of the book really dragged the story down. I felt like it was added so this could more easily be made into a block buster movie. The book would have been better without the love interest.

Once again Leonard Goldberg has come through with a fast-paced, twisting and turning plot that keeps the reader mesmerized throughout the book. I always know that it's safe to take one of his novels with me when I have a lot of down time because they consistently hold my attention and keep me focused on the book instead of the time.

This book grabbed me from the opening pages and kept my interest until I closed the last chapter and handed it off to my hairdresser.

If you don't follow Mr. Goldberg's series, I strongly recommend that you start - always a promise of a great read.

This is my first look at Leonard Goldberg and I just couldn't put it down, ala Patricia Cornwell! The plot of doctors getting murdered in very gruesome manners and the passages where the killer's thoughts were described -- while not identifying the killer is excellent! I loved the relationship between the forensic pathologist, Joanna Blalock, and the cop, although that seemed a little too close for comfort to Patricia Cornwell's Dr. Kay Scarpetta and her FBI boyfriend. However, many cop books portray relationships between cops and other cops or other people in law enforcement, and in real life, this happens all the time! The reputations of doctors being on the line during a malpractice suit was very realistic and moved along at a good pace between all the murders, blood and guts -- and stray hands falling here and there. Definitely a book for the morbidly curious. That's me!

Lethal Measures -- revised version --
by Leonard Goldberg
=    #5 in the Lethally Poor Joanna Blalock/Jake Sinclair series
Reviewer: Frank from Los Altos
*spoilers*
This 2000 book follows the typical "action" book where an evil greedy doctor causes havoc until he's caught, with far-right religious fanatics thrown in for laughs.
In this story, after a large bomb explosion in Los Angeles home with sixteen dead and twenty-eight injured, the FBI demands that all the injured be treated at our heroine's hospital, Memorial Hospital, AND that the incredibly brilliant, beautiful and desirable Joanna perform all the autopsies herself -- autopsies which largely involve examining small body parts.
Of course, as always, Joanna is perfection itself: her supervisor can't "believe someone so young and pretty could have that much brains." And her sometimes-boyfriend Jake? Joanna says, "He was so damn good-looking." Lest we miss the point, ten pages later we read, "Jake was so damn good-looking."

Author Leonard Goldberg has written a gripping tale that keeps the reader turning pages. It's hard to put this book down until you find out what happens. An experienced detective and a forensic pathologist pursue domestic terrorists who are bent on blowing up the president of the United States and scores of bystanders. The plot is an ingenious one with enough unexpected twists and turns to surprise even those of us who generally sniff out the ending of a mystery novel half-way through the story. I'll be looking for - and buying - the other Goldberg novels.

I was browsing a local bookstore when I ran across this paperback edition of Dr. Goldberg's lastest Joanna Blalock/Jake Sinclair installment. If one has not tried this series and like such thrillers as ones written by Ridley Pearson, Michael Palmer and Robin Cook...READ THIS!

I have been a Joanna Blalock/Jake Sinclair fan since the beginning installments of these characters written by Dr. Goldberg. I look forward to each new installment as much as I look forward to the Daphne Matthews/Lou Boldt installments from Ridley Pearson. I purchased the book on late Friday afternoon and had it finished by Sunday morning! It's like taking a breath taking ride on an awesome rollercoaster. In a couple of places my hearts was pumping so hard out of suspense that I actually had to put the book down before flipping the page in a few minutes.

There are very few authors that I buy their books unseen or without ever cracking open the inside of the cover jacket to read the synopsis. Dr. Goldberg is among one of the elite to which I do this for. I usually purchase my books in the hardback version once they hit the bookshelves but somehow, this installment got passed me. I was most pleasantly surprised when I ran across the paperback version.

Try it! You'll like it!

OK, I enjoyed reading this novel. The plot is well constructed at first, and there is a lot of action and suspense. But I was also disappointed. Unlike in the other novels the main characters - above all Joanna Blalock - are not really consistent or believable in their presentation, with the exception of Sinclair. The ending is a real surprise - but too many questions remain open. Some lines of the plot just stop or fade away without a logical explanation. I prefer the other Blalock novels.

It keeps you on your toes from the start. Its tales of unthinkable hospital occurances keep you thinking that they could really happen! Page after page, you wonder if you'll ever feel safe in a hospital again! Goldberg writes so eloquently that you feel as if you have jumped right into the shoes of Joanna or Jake...or even those of a murderous nurse!

*spoilers*
This 1996 third book in the Joanna Blalock/ Jake Sinclair series was in the running for Most Outlandish Plot of the Year, and may have won. Try this: large HMO is keeping an eye on profits, so it plants devices in its patients which can release fatal poison by remote control, in case their care gets too expensive. The bodies pile up -- average of one every 35 pages -- as the HMO's military/ CIA-trained assassin now targets Joanna. Will this assassin, who has no trouble at all killing others, manage to do Joanna in?
We are CONSTANTLY reminded of how beautiful Joanna is, and most characters are described by how well they're aging. As a preview of Jake's police brutality seen in future books, Jake pulls his handgun on two of Joanna's neighbors who are making too much noise late at night.
It's more of an "action" book than one where the characters, especially the "good guys," face any moral choices or tests of character. The good guys do their jobs, squabble with coworkers, and -- if they're male -- try to date Joanna.
For an author who lives in California, Goldberg is unfamiliar with California law: death by gas chamber was outlawed in 1994, and the handgun wait period is 10 days, not 14.

In "Deadly Care," Leonard Goldberg dusts off a number of cliches: 1) the spunky female forensic pathologist who endangers her life to get at the truth 2) the tough but sensitive cop who has had an on-again off-again affair with the aforementioned pathologist 3) the big bad HMO that will do anything for profit. Been there, done that. Yet, in spite of this, Goldberg manages to keep the reader's interest throughout. How? He writes crisp, no-nonsense dialogue. The action is fast-paced and the bodies pile up. Goldberg knows how to write a gripping thriller and the medical details add a needed touch of realism. "Deadly Care" is an entertaining medical whodunit.

This is the first book written by Dr. Goldberg I have read. I really cannot wait to get the other books written by Dr. Goldberg. I could not put the book down and found my self reading it all the time. There really was not a point in the book that I could not wait for what would happen next. I can hardly wait to read other books by Dr Goldberg.

*spoilers*
The bizarre plot is that incredibly rich men screen their prospective wives for genetic compatibility, and then use surrogate mothers to birth children which will be close genetic matches, available to be killed to provide organ transplants for the father, if needed at a future date. The children are raised "like animals" under lock and key in a mountain-top compound in Los Angeles County. Meanwhile, the doctor in charge of this compound -- which is owned by organized crime, no less -- maintains his job as a respected surgeon at Joanna Blalock's hospital.
The book opens with an attempted sniping by a man with a Ruger Mini-14 shooting .50 caliber bullets. However, the Ruger Mini-14 shoots .223 caliber bullets.
There are almost as many murders in this book as there are references to how beautiful Joanna is.
This book has few redeeming qualities; it's a definite pass.

I am quite willing to suspend disbelief when reading mysteries/thrillers -- to a point. However, as I read through this book, I found myself saying "oh come ON" just too often. The silly ending was bad enough (is there *anything* lazier/lamer than deux ex machina?), but what really bothered me were the attempts at character development. The characters' behavior and reactions were consistently stilted and inauthentic. Worst of all, by the end of the novel I didn't give two hoots about any one of them. I am an avid mystery reader and am especially fond of medical thrillers and series, but I feel no desire to read anything else about Joanna Blalock and her pals. Definitely, a tale of intruigue that was less than intruiguing.

I found that this book was a really good book. It really defines the meaning behind medicine. Joanna Blalcock and Lori Mckay, coupled with Jake the constable make a great team! They uncover many details including some scams and other inevitable things through the stories of medicine including through the Donor's International Services which include an infertility clinic, a daycare center for people with disabilities, a research center and also a transplant donor facility. If you're interested in a medical thriller this one is for you! If you're interested in sharing this good book, feel free to email me! at drsarahchurch@Hotmail.com

*spoilers*
This follows the typical "medical action" book where an evil greedy doctor causes havoc until he's caught.
Thankfully, this book is graced by the absence of Neanderthal hero Jake Sinclair. The plot involves the beautiful ever-youthful and desirable genius Joanna being whisked off to a naval ship off Alaska, where she investigates a mysterious illness coming from an iceberg containing a magnolia. As if that isn't enough, a repeat of the Poseidon Adventure is in the offing.

Bloopers and fractured history abound in this book.
While the Viet Cong committed atrocities, they were never reported to have severed the arms of an entire village's children because the children received American vaccines.
Potassium-argon dating is used to date MINERALS which have been melted in the past, and could not be used to date iridium dust from a meteor. When used on rocks, potassium-argon dating can be used back four billion years, not the "billion years" as Goldberg claims.

Twin scientists working together show up in this book, as another set of twin scientist coworkers will show up in Brainwaves.
The "space suits" used for contagious autopsies are NOT "identical to the ones used in space walks."
This book is not recommended.

There is an ancient (dinosaur-age) bacterium on the loose. Well, okay, it's mostly trapped inside an iceberg along with some Cretaceous shrubbery (please don't ask how this came about), but fortunately for the plot, it doesn't stay trapped in there for long! Loose, this bacterium infects human tissues most avidly, with deadly results. In addition, the bacterium produces a toxin that is, surprise, more immediately lethal than the infection. All this takes place mostly on a ship. Aboard the ship there is also a murderer. Meanwhile on shore a pandemic is brewing, starring a bacterium that is closely related, but not identical, to the venerable bug back on the ship. Or in the iceberg. Wherever. Coincidence? I think not. People on the ship begin dying of infections, if they aren't murdered first. Sometimes they have sex (infectious, natch). Then a storm brings other icebergs to batter the ship. A devastating fire breaks out. There is an earthquake, and a tsunami. The captured, infectious iceberg escapes and bashes about the ship seeking gory revenge. Our heroine assumes a leadership role. It was a dark and stormy night.

The cover of "Deadly Exposure" shows a biohazard symbol. Heed it.

Joanna Blalock must be really priveleged since she was chosen to be one of the leaders in the great expedition to the arctic circle area. She is an excellent pathologist, and was able to get to the bottom of a lot of these various sites!

She allowed Lori mckay to take over for her when she was gone away from the hospital, so that there would be no problems! Lori needed to conference about some problems like with the chinese baby!

To find out more about this great plot, you will have to read the booK!:)