Prescription For Death

ISBN: 0595276261

Author: Friedman, Barry

Condition: Used

Product Description Prescription For DeathA gang of criminals devise a scheme to defraud insurance companies by faking heart attacks. Their plot includes a method of altering cardiograms, a relatively new diagnostic tool in 1931, the setting of this story.Stuart Downing, a young physician, suspects the scheme, but digging out the evidence proves a deadly pursuit. Downing is up against a devious lawyer, unscrupulous doctors, crooked insurance agents and killers.Downing must match his ingenuity against theirs with an unimaginable threat lurking at his every move.__________________________________________________Praise for the novels of Barry FriedmanDead End" supplies his readers with plenty of tension right to the end."-Inscriptions Magazine" Lively police procedural."-San Diego Union-Tribune" Fantastic story."-Huntress Book ReviewsAssignment: Bosnia"Exceptionally well-written thriller."-Shirley Allen, author of Roxanna Britton"This thriller kept me glued to the pages."-Oceanside reviewer"Very suspenseful."-AllReaders.comThe ShroudAwarded runner-up Best Novel, suspense/thriller category, 2001 San Diego Book Awards. About the Author Barry Friedman is a retired physician. His previously published novels are: DEAD END, a police procedural; ASSIGNMENT: BOSNIA, a thriller based on the recent war in Bosnia; and THE SHROUD, a novel whose story deals with an attempt to clone Jesus with blood obtained from the Shroud of Turin. Friedman lives with his wife in Southern California.