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.
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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