Dead End Deal - Couverture souple

Wyler, Allen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1938231058 ISBN 13 : 9781938231056

Editeur : Astor & Blue Editions LLC, 2013

Synopsis

Book by Wyler Allen

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur :

Brought up in Seattle, Allen Wyler's parents died early which left him having to wholly support himself through college in a variety of ways – including serving as a drive-in cook and playing drums as a professional musician in various blues and jazz groups. Medicine was his chosen discipline and he went on to have a distinguished career in his speciality, neurosurgery, which he determined on very early in his studies. Serving on the faculties of the University of Washington and the University of Tennessee, he earned an international reputation for pioneering surgical techniques to record brain activity. In 1992, he was recruited by the prestigious 'Swedish Medical Centre' to develop a Neuroscience Institute. Ten years later, he left active practice to become Medical Director for a start-up Med-Tech company, and now chairs the Institutional Review Board of a major medical centre in the Pacific Northwest. In the early 1970's Wyler developed a love of reading thrillers, and later decided to leverage his medical knowledge by writing himself. After the publication of his first two medical thrillers, 'Deadly Errors', and 'Dead Head', in 2005 and 2007 respectively, he retired from full time day to day medicine to devote more time to his writing. He has also served as Vice President of the 'International Thriller Writers' organization for several years. He and his wife, Lily, divide their time between Seattle and the San Juan Islands, and he continues to develop new plots from real-life situations met during his career. His writing has been described as 'right up there with the best' and on another occasion, developing a high-speed plot with a 'startling but all-too-plausible premise'.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

World renowned neurosurgeon Jon Ritter is on the verge of a medical breakthrough that will change the world. His ground-breaking surgical treatment, using transplanted non-human stem cells, is set to eradicate the scourge of Alzheimer's disease and give hope to millions. But when the procedure is slated for testing, it all comes to an abrupt and terrifying halt. Ritter's colleague is gunned down and Ritter himself is threatened by a radical anti-abortion group that not only claims responsibility, but promises more of the same. Faced with a dangerous reality but determined to succeed, Ritter turns to a long-time colleague to conduct a clandestine clinical trial in Seoul, Korea. But after successful trials, Ritter and his allies are thrown into a horrifying nightmare scenario: the trial patients have been murdered and Ritter is the number one suspect. Aided by his beautiful lab assistant, Yeonhee, Ritter flees the country, and is now the target of an international manhunt involving Interpol, the Fbi, zealous fanatics, and a coldly efficient assassin named Fiest.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Astor & Blue Editions LLC
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1938231058
• ISBN 13: 9781938231056
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 398