Psychological Thrillers: Get The Neurosurgeon!
Creating suspense in psychological thrillers:
“The Neurosurgeon” by Travis Robertson
If you enjoy reading great psychological thrillers, consider The Neurosurgeon, a novel by Travis Robertson. The author interweaves emotion and intelligence, the two rarely related. This novel is one of several psychological thrillers creating suspense. We see Doctor Ira Stone marshalling his knowledge to carry out a delicate operation, an excision of an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) with its own attendant tension. (Watch an excellent and informative You Tube video of brain surgery on an AVM.) At the same time the surgeon mulls over the intriguing beauty of his new scrub nurse:
Psychological Thrillers: “The Neurosurgeon”
Psychological Thrillers: “The Neurosurgeon”
Dangerous thinking
“…Startled, I glanced up, holding Nurse Stephanie DeLeon’s rather compelling gaze longer than simple acknowledgement required. I couldn’t decide if her eyes were more brown or more yellow. Maybe a dark amber. Or a light cinnamon surrounding expanded, black pupils. The orbs, flanked by her long sable eyelashes, possessed a glowing quality. The scrub nurse seemed never to blink. I did not know why, but I felt as if my mind were being excavated…as if she could read my mutinous thoughts. Perhaps even those to which not even I had access.
‘Doctor Stone, are both suctions working okay?’ inquired the circulator. Quickly refocusing, I turned back to the operative field.
‘Yes, Janice. You might reduce the suction flow on my left…’”
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Psychological thrillers and multiple demons
This book, one of many psychological thrillers and published at iUniverse, explores the inner workings of Ira Stone, M.D., a brain surgeon. The novel follows the journey of a physician falling in love with a beautiful yet mysterious surgical nurse, Stephanie DeLeon. Ira hits rock bottom and tries desperately to extract himself from the tentacles of both Steffi and alcohol. Ira begins his search for an elusive redemption.
This compelling story of adultery, addiction, and a stressful recovery is expertly interwoven with meticulously researched medical vignettes. The sequences depicting surgery are particularly moving not only in their accuracy. However, in this thriller the careful, regimented operations contradict the manner in which the surgeon lives outside of the operating room. The Neurosurgeon hints at larger ideas of redemption and human nature.
Although this work is titled The Neurosurgeon, the physician’s career is perhaps less compelling than his social life. Indeed, he is defined by his work while his real existence has less to do with medicine and surgery. This engrossing thriller, written by a brain surgeon, is available at most bookstores or directly from these sources.
For patients, therapists, and families
This book, an excellent read among psychological thrillers, would interest anyone intrigued by the human condition, including physicians & surgeons, nurses, psychologists, addicts & alcoholics and their families, addiction therapists, and readers of psychological intrigue. No matter how much the devastation by alcohol and drugs, there is hope for the addict. Whereas this is a fascinating work of fiction, the events seem all too real. The surgeon ponders over the possibility: “There is a God, and I am not He.”
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(View another page in this website to see a thesaurus of 2,060 synonyms for “said,” “thought,” and “walked” in the author’s Mini-Thesaurus for psychological novels. Synonyms for these verbs were used extensively in the psychological novel, The Neurosurgeon.)
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About Travis Robertson
I am a surgeon with numerous scientific publications and two novels based on fictional brain surgery, international intrigue, and relationships.
