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Five Star First Edition Mystery - Geezer

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Cool, and timely too, with the Vioxx scandal and all the Botox around.
Alan Dyson should be played by James Spader in the movie version. It's
a perfect vehicle for an innocent character that becomes the victim of
his own insecurities, set up to be the patsy in a clandestine
conspiracy. Has all the elements of suspense, plus satire to soften
the hard edges. A real page turner!

The author here should be compared to Hans Christian Anderson only brighter. I'm buying all his books and can't wait to sit down with a hot chocolate by the fireplace. Let the world go away.

Gripping fast moving storyline with nail biting episodes throughout
the book.
A must for any mystery reader.
"Five Stars" all the way.

Alexandria-based Tactor Pharmaceutical research engineer Alan Dyson learns that his funding for the Methuselah Gene project is suspended. His superiors explain that his efforts to extend life expectancy are going nowhere with the worms he tested dying earlier than normal and besides they object to his using a benign form of the HIV virus, unacceptable due to the connotation even if it works as the transmitter.

That night someone broke into his lab and stole his notes and erased his hard drive; his lab technician Jim Baxter, a cautious person, is dead having injected the serum into himself. When Alan gets home, his computer there his also been erased. He asks his best friend, Tactor computer programmer Daryl to look into what happened to his equipment. Daryl traces the thief to a Walter Mills in Zion, Iowa. Alan heads to the Hawkeye State only to find illegal human medical testing using his formula. If the unknown examiners learn he is in the Midwest, Alan will forfeit his life, but he cannot walk away when his objective was to prolong life not kill it.

Though the conspiracy behind the Midwest testing is a sub-genre occupational hazard, GEEZER is a terrific medical thriller that focuses on the misuse and abuse of research in spite of the ethical dedication of the lead scientist. The story line takes off once David arrives in Iowa and realizes what has happened to his experiment on improving life. His first name is apropos as he battles a Goliath corporation to stop the devastating testing. Fans will appreciate this fine look at what can go wrong when amoral individuals use human guinea pigs in the name of science that is profitable science.

Harriet Klausner