X-Files: Skin (The X-Files)

by Ben Mezrich

Hardcover, 1999

Status

Available

Call number

813.54

Publication

HarperEntertainment (1999), Edition: 1st, 272 pages

Description

Fatal Flesh When moonlighting medical students "harvesting" skin from a corpse for temporary use accidentally take it from the wrong donor, the results are catastrophic:a New York City hospital ward is destroyed in a bloodbath, and an elderly professor, admitted for a routine skin graft, is suddenly the city's most wanted fugitive. Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are the only ones to suspect something more ominous than a medical procedure gone awry. As the FBI agents investigating the "X-Files"--strange and inexplicable cases the Bureau wants to keep hidden--Mulder and Scully are determined to track down the forces they suspect are behind the murderer. While the police hunt the fleeing professor, Mulder and Scully track the skin that was grafted onto him, a trail that leads from the morgue to the headquarters of a cutting-edge biotech company to the jungles of Thailand. Together they begin to uncover an unholy and totally deniable alliance between a battle-trained plastic surgeon, international politicians, and a legendary Thai monster known as the "Skin-Eater."… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member Imshi
I was with this one until I got the the part with the autopsy report. Having written and reviewed numerous such reports in my lifetime, I can tell you that there are some things that just don't go on them. Hint:

"Her skull was crushed in with the force of two vehicles colliding at thirty miles per
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hour."

is one of them. After that I lost all ability to take this book seriously, and had to put it down.
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1999-04-07

Physical description

272 p.; 6.13 inches

ISBN

0061050415 / 9780061050411
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