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LETHAL CURE
by Kurt Popke
Durban House, February 2003
300 pages
$15.95
ISBN: 1930754345


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It is only after he has resuscitated the intruder of a house invasion that Dr. Jake Prescott, emergency medicine resident, learns that his patient's victim is Jake's wife, Sara. Sara's condition is critical. Jake then learns that their young daughter, Kelly, has been kidnapped by the intruder's partner. He can give the police no reason why his family has been targeted. Nothing of value has been taken from their home.

In his fury to learn the reason he violates his oath as a doctor and pressures his patient, Metzger, from whom he elicited a vague reference to Billy Ray Chance and Harrison Tobacco. It dawns on him that he, not his family, is the target of the attack. He is in possession of vital damaging research information from former Harrison Tobacco executive, Winston Quine, which will bring down the company. Harrison Tobacco has sent out Chance as an assassin to obtain this information and to eliminate Prescott.

Jake, helpless alone, enlists the aid of a former patient, P I Terry Luther, to find his daughter and Chance. Together they fight against seemingly insurmountable odds to thwart the evil actions of Chance and of the corporation.

This is a breathtaking, spine tingling story of the struggle of a young doctor to rescue his daughter from a psychotic assassin who will use any means to fulfill his contract with his employer. The roller coaster pace of the action keeps the reader on edge throughout. The dilemma of Jake with his need to choose between expediency and his oath as a doctor is treated in depth. There is much detail about the various medical procedures which may be of interest to some, but such detail really didn't add that much to the story.

Reviewed by Barbara Buhrer, August 2003

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