As THE SECOND OPINION by Michael Palmer opens, Petros Sperelakis
is lying in a bed in his own hospital and in a deep coma. He has
been the victim of a hit-and-run driver and is barely holding on to
life. Why would anyone want to kill Dr. Sperelakis? After all, he
is a world-renowned diagnostician and the man who created the
stellar Sperelakis Center for Diagnostic Medicine at Boston’s
Beaumont Clinic, a huge facility that outdistances every other
hospital corporation anywhere on the planet.
Petros is the father of four grown children: Dimitri, the
oldest; twins Selene and