Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Book Review - Dead Ringer - Allen Wyler

Dead Ringer
Title:  DeadRinger

Author: Allen Wyler

Review:  I didn’t know what to expect with this book, the author is a neurosurgeon and that sounded…well boring to me.  I was wrong….BOOM the book started with a splash and just got better from there.  You know what it’s like to run into people you know when on vacation?  Strange and yet somehow interesting…well this is even more interesting and yet disturbing at the same time. 

Have you even seen someone that looks just like someone else and yet they aren’t that person you know?  Strange and yes it happens, we call them Dead Ringers….well this is a twist of that and let me say that it is freaky.

A fast paced mystery that kept me turning the page and staying up way too late.  I wanted to know what happened to the bad guys and to the good guys for that matter.  If you like murder mysteries then this is the book for you.  Even when you know Who-dunnit- you have to figure out a way to prove it without getting yourself killed in the process.  The cops can only do so much and then it is up to you to finish it. 

Give this book a chance and I don’t think you will be disappointed. 

Publisher: Published June 26th 2012 by Astor +Blue Editions

ISBN: B008EXSKMU

Copyright: 2012

Pages: Kindle Edition, Kindle Edition, 286 pages

Quick Review: 4 stars (out of 5)

Why I Read It:  Sent by the publisher/author for review.

Synopsis: While speaking at a Hong Kong medical conference, neurosurgeon Dr. Lucas McCrae slips the cloth off a cadaver’s head during a routine medical demonstration, and is overwhelmed with the shock by what’s staring back at him: His best friend, Andy Baer.

Stunned, McCrae races back to Seattle to discover that Andy is in fact missing and may have been murdered by a gang of body snatchers who operate a legit funeral business and make a fortune by selling recovered body parts to medical researchers.

McCrae teams up with an unlikely pair—a beautiful but hardnosed female cop and a gang member whose family was victimized by the body parts ring—to try and expose a macabre web of corruption that involves law enforcement, politicians, funeral home curators and murdered prostitutes.

Internationally renowned neurosurgeon Allen Wyler takes us deep into a nightmarish scenario, shockingly ripped from recent headlines, and delivers a horrifically plausible, page-turning thriller.
Author Biography: Allen Wyler is a renowned neurosurgeon who earned an international reputation for pioneering surgical techniques to record brain activity.  He has served on the faculties of both the University of Washington and the University of Tennessee, and in 1992 was recruited by the prestigious Swedish Medical Center to develop a neuroscience institute.
In 2002, he left active practice to become Medical Director for a startup med-tech company (that went public in 2006) and he now chairs the Institutional Review Board of a major medical center in the Pacific Northwest.

Leveraging a love for thrillers since the early 70’s, Wyler devoted himself to fiction writing in earnest, eventually serving as Vice President of the International Thriller Writers organization for several years. After publishing his first two medical thrillers Deadly Errors (2005) and Dead Head (2007), he officially retired from medicine to devote himself to writing full time.

He and his wife, Lily, divide their time between Seattle and the San Juan Islands.

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