Louis lives an isolated existence on the French-Swiss border. When an ailing heart leads him to visit Geneva to pay for a replacement on the black market, he travels to his former home where he searches for his lost son.

Iris, a Las Vegas star who has an affinity for wild creatures, finds salvation in the arms of "Blue" Perrineau, an agent with Dirk & Steele detective agency and protector of the innocent, who is working undercover to expose an organ smuggling ring.

They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others -- all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures -- were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up. Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications...

Na krasnom rynke mozhno kupitʹ chto ugodno - ot volos dli︠a︡ narashchivanii︠a︡ do pochek dli︠a︡ peresadki. No vot zakony ėtogo rynka, kak i zakony vsi︠a︡kogo tenevogo biznesa, sovsem neochevidny. Rynok chelovecheskikh tel sushchestvuet v parallelʹnoĭ realʹnosti - on dalëk i odnovremenno ochenʹ blizok. V ėtoĭ knige zhurnalist Skott Karni, rabotavshiĭ dli︠a︡ BBC i National Geographic TV, rasskazyvaet o tom, kak ustroen...

Since 2008, albinos in Tanzania have become human targets. Witch doctors offer huge sums of cash for their body parts to be used in magic potions. From 2008 to 2010, more than 200 witch-doctor inspired murders occurred. This is the story of Alias, an albino boy on the run. After his father's murder, his mother sends him to the city. His uncle Kosmos, a truck driver, takes care of him. Alias learns fast in the city, selling sunglasses, DVDs and cellphones,...

"Dos temas articulan la sugerente trama de esta novela: la mirada y la ciudad. Un espacio definido les sirve de vínculo: la clínica oftalmológica del doctor Suárez, versión mexicana de la célebre Clinica Barraquer en Barcelona. Casa de los signos, el edificio levantado por Suárez pretendre servir a la vista y a la visión, a la salud y las formas trascendentes que entran por los ojos. Pero este ideal ocurre en un México convulso, donde el...

In an evil world, everything is for sale ... The body of a missing teenager is dredged from the seabed off the Sussex coast, missing vital organs. Soon after, a further two more bodies are found. Caitlin Beckett, a fifteen-year-old in Brighton will die if she does not receive an urgent transplant. When the health system threatens to let her down, her mother takes drastic action and goes to an online broker in black-market organs. The broker can provide...

"Malachi is a mute thirty-year-old man, performing mind-numbing factory work, when he gets an extraordinary job offer. In exchange for six months as a warden on a top-secret organ-farming project, Frasier Pharmaceuticals will gift Malachi the power of speech and graft him a new tongue, after his was cut out when he was a boy... Far out to sea on an oilrig, Malachi finds himself among warlords and mass murderers. But are the prisoner-donors as evil...

Ryu is a deaf mute who is desperate to find a kidney for his dying sister. When his initial plans to save her fail, he and his girlfriend, a radical leftist, find themselves contemplating the unthinkable.