The Final Diagnosis, gives us a tension-packed drama and mammoth complexity of a great hospital...a world where one faulty diagnosis, one irrevocable error precipitates appalling tragedy.In this enthralling story of a young pathologist's struggle to restore the standards of a hospital controlled by an ageing and once-brilliant doctor, Hailey takes us behind the reception areas, the emergency rooms and the bustling words, to reveal the hidden corridors of a world the patient never sees... The Final Diagnosis, which introduces a compelling cast of characters, is Arthur Hailey writing at the very height of his powers.

Arthur Hailey was born in 1920 at Luton, where he attended school, then worked as an office boy and clerk. At the outbreak of the Second World War, he joined Force and rose through the ranks to become a pilot and Flight Lieutenant. In 1974 he emigrated to Canada successively a real-estate salesman, business-magazine editor and a sales and advertising executive. He became a full-time author in 1956 following the overnight success of his television play 'Flight into Danger' which was performed worldwide, later becoming a novel and a film. In his long career as a novelist he wrote eleven novels which have been published in twenty-seven languages. Arthur Hailey died on November 24, 2004.