From Publishers Weekly
In this sexy medical thriller, Perry (
Windowpane) pursues the cure for cancer and AIDS and everything else. Rick "Doc" Scales, an attractive but aging physician's assistant, lives a solitary life in Washington State near the Makah reservation, facing middle-aged ennui with an obsessive fitness regime and quiet resignation. Things begin to look up for Rick when several terminally ill patients make miracle recoveries. First, an AIDS patient, then advanced cancer and leukemia patients go into spontaneous remission. However, as required by the genre, the cure turns out worse than the disease, and soon Rick finds himself helping "tough, drop-dead gorgeous" Tribal Deputy Jasmine "Jay" Hughes investigate the death of one of his miracle patients, discovered in the trunk of a wrecked Cadillac. After other newly recovered patients turn up dead, Rick and Jay hit the road to save their own skins and find out what's behind the deadly miracle cure. Perry's hot-blooded combo of action, romance and speculative science excites, though the abrupt ending—heavy on speechifying and sequel preparation—proves frustrating at best.
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When rural Washington physician's assistant Rick Scales examines the radiographs of Native American Tom Inch and sees what appears to be spontaneous remission of terminal lung cancer, he is first skeptical, then delighted. Miracles, he reasons, do happen. But after a seven-year-old leukemia patient also experiences inexplicable remission, and an octogenarian takes a 15-mile hike, wariness starts displacing delight. Then they and other suddenly cured patients abruptly either disappear or die under mysterious circumstances. Now thoroughly suspicious, Scales joins Makah tribal police chief Jasmine Hughes to investigate . . . what? They aren't sure. There's no law against curing the sick. But then an auto accident kills two shadowy strangers, and the body of a local boy is in their car's trunk. Something truly sinister
is afoot. Medic and cop form a professional and romantic partnership to sniff out and track down a resourceful evildoer. Perry's acronym-packed, slightly uneven novel is slow going at first, but the pace picks up as the chase commences.
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