Fatal Addiction [Paperback]

Everett Beal (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 2005

What if at the time of death the human brain creates a chemical that puts us in a state of pure ecstasy as the spirit prepares to leave the body? What if terrorists learned to make this drug and sell it on our streets? Once tried, ordinary people would do anything to get it. It would our society in a state of Fatal Addiction. This story is fiction—or is it? With over 30 years experience in pharmaceuticals, Everett Beal, Rph. Is compelled to tell the public of an amoral trend in a multi-billion dollar industry that could put our entire country in a state of Fatal Addiction while terrorists wait in the shadows.

The hero of the story is Tyler, a small town pharmacist who learns that terrorists have secretly altered a legal drug (Oxy-Contin) to make it hopelessly addictive. Working undercover for Homeland Security, he investigates a fellow pharmacist who is trafficking the altered drug out onto the streets. Tyler is soon enveloped in a dangerous morass of pervasive evil that is so large that he sees no way out. His one salvation is his love for Miriam, whose three year old daughter was raped and brutally murdered by an OxyContin addict.

As skilled with his pen as he is in his profession, Everett Beal has masterfully told a captivating tale of intrigue, mystery and danger that has its dark side leavened by the love and courage of a couple who struggle against an overwhelming tide of greed and terrorism.

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About the Author

W. Everett Beal, R.Ph., was born in Valdosta, Georgia, and has lived in the South all of his life. In addition to being a professional pharmacist, the owner of two pharmacies, sportsman, and outdoor writer, he appeared on nine television shows, had his own radio show and acted in two movies. As well as being the author of Southern Winds, he has written and published more than five-hundred stories in newspapers and magazines.

When Dr. Beal retired, he moved to the northeast Georgia Mountains in Dillard and Sky Valley where he and his wife, Judy, lived for sixteen years. He owned and operated The Merry Christmas Shop in the Georgia Mountains. They now live back in Griffin, Georgia.

Having thirty years of experience in the pharmaceutical field, Doc Beal said, "I want to open the eyes of America and let people know they are in trouble. Drug addiction is happening everywhere. Habit forming drugs are available all over the world. Drug addiction is spreading like the tentacles of an octopus." He has studied patients in detox centers, mental and substance abuse centers and across the counter patients who were, or had been addicted, to habit forming drugs. Fatal Addiction was written to make the world aware that this generation is exposed to drugs on a daily basis and that drug abuse touches almost every family.

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: Jada Press (September 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976411571
• ISBN-13: 978-0976411574
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,622,384 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Fatal Addiction, November 7, 2005

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J. Hall "Jimmy" (Georgia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fatal Addiction (Paperback)

Every once in a while a book comes-out at just the right time. Everett Beal's Fatal Addiction is one such book. Amid a fictional story which is based upon true-life scenarios and rather scary possibilities, the author relates the problems of drug usage, both legal and illegal, in our modern world.
From the short novel's blood-chilling start, through a course of events that only a veteran Rph (Pharmacist) could assimilate and detail, a nice love story, and an eventual surprising ending, Mr. Beal does a nice job of making the reader aware of drug-related problems that everyday people think nothing about. He also puts forth the possibility of terrorists getting to the American drug supply and killing us by the thousands. (The notion is not far-fetched.)
The book's hero, a local pharmacist named Tyler, inadvertently becomes involved in a thrilling Homeland Security plot to foil the manufacturing and illegal distribution of an altered and super-deadly form of oxycontin. Along the way he finds love with Miriam, hope, despair, and then hope again. As the book cover promises, it is a tale of intrigue guaranteed to set the reader's mind to thinking about once negligible possibilities, in the new age of international terrorism.
This is a novel about a couple finding each other and rebuilding their lives and belief in love, after two separate sets of horrific circumstances. However, service to the town and nation are their top priority.
This book should be required high school reading for juniors and seniors. Without being preachy, the tale demonstrates the corrupting possibilities which drugs deviously hold over citizens from age 1 to 100, well-intentioned or not. As Mr. Beal, from Griffin, Georgia, is personally fond of saying, "Addiction knows no classes, nor boundaries." You can believe him, and will. Buy the book.

JADA Press, 2005
ISBN: 0-9764115-7-1
212pp.