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Obligations of the Bone [Hardcover]

Dick Cluster (Author)


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September 1992
While undergoing a bone marrow transplant, Linda Dumars is shocked when her marrow is stolen during the procedure, and she must depend on Alex Glauberman, moonlighting detective, to get it back for her and save her life.

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The 1960s counterculture figures strongly in the third appearance of Boston's occasional shamus Alex Glauberman, an auto mechanic (northern European models only) and recovering cancer patient. Local doctor Jay Harrison receives a note requesting a loan in exchange for silence about his cross-country hitchhiking trip and some time he spent in San Francisco during his student days. Before Alex begins to investigate, a sample of bone marrow is stolen from Harrison's clinic, further threatening a cancer patient's life, and considerably more money is demanded for its return. The transaction goes down badly, sending Alex racing to the West Coast to find the blackmailers. Cluster ( Repulse Monkey ) adroitly moves into his characters' pasts, exploring draft-dodging, leftist politics and '60s dreams dashed on the rocks of yuppie aspiration. More reality is added by the threatened patient's hateful husband and some disgruntled patients of Dr. Jay. Everything meshes well, though game Alex often finds himself up to his eyeballs in medical knowledge he never sought.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 244 pages
  • Publisher: St Martins Pr; 1st edition (September 1992)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312082746
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312082741
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,627,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

The ambitions I can remember having were to be a writer, a teacher, someone who could speak a foreign language, and radical and/or bohemian. All this seems to have happened, one way or another. I've written history books and mystery novels, and some popular economics in what feels like a past life. I translate from Spanish, especially Cuban writing. Some years living in Havana in the '90s led me to the translation and, eventually, to a social history of Havana: what it's been like for people living there over the past five centuries, and something about why.

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