The Fourth Procedure — Stanley Pottinger

An accomplished attorney prepares to argue a life-and-death case before a hostile Supreme Court nominee ... A leading surgeon answers an emergency call to assist an operation in progress .... And in a Washington, D.C., morgue, a medical examiner examines a body that has been tampered with....

Congressman Jack MacLeod is haunted by an episode that changed his life forever. Now his life is about to explode again: the police find evidence linking him to the strange death of a man who lived in MacLeod's New York City district...

Suddenly events spin out of control. Backroom deals made by powerful politicos threaten to destroy Jack's future. And, in the shadows, a plan so outrageous and unthinkable it will smash every assumption about the limits of the human body is nearing its shocking conclusion....