〈畅销书〉世无定事.(美)西德尼·谢尔顿.文字版.pdf

The Incomparable Sidney Sheldon Best known today for his exciting, blockbuster novels, Sidney Sheldon is the author of The Stars Shine Down, The Doomsday Conspiracy, Memories of Midnight, The Sands of Time, Windmills of the Cods, If Tomorrow Comes, Master of the Came, Rage of Angels, Bloodline, A Stranger in the Mirror, and The Other Side of Midnight. All have been number one international bestsellers. His first and only other book, The Naked Face, was acclaimed by the New York Times as the best first mystery of the year. Most of his novels have become major feature films or TV mini-series, and there are 150 million copies of his books in print throughout the world. However, before he ever authored a book Sidney Sheldon had won a Tony Award for Broadways Redhead and an Academy Award for The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer. He wrote the screenplays for twenty-three motion pictures includ-ing Easter Parade (with Judy Garland) and Annie Cet Your Cun. In addition, he penned six other Broadway hits and created four long-running television series including Hart to Hart and I Dream of Jeannie, which he also produced and directed. A writer who has delighted mil-lions with his award-winning plays, movies, novels, and television shows, Sidney Sheldon reigns as one of the most popular storytellers of all time. SIDNEY SHELDON NOTHING LASTS FOREVER To Anastasia and Roderick Mann, with love The author wishes to express his deep appreciation to the many doctors, nurses, and medical technicians who were generous enough to share their expertise with him. What cannot be cured with medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable. -Hippocrates, circa 480 b.c. There are three classes of human beings: men, women, and women physicians. -Sir William Osler Prologue San Francisco Spring 1995 District Attorney Carl Andrews was in a fury. What the hel