The Renaissance Of Aspirin
Glenn Parris
XLIBRIS, May 16 2013, $18.99
www.xlibris.com
ISBN: 9781483633022
At the Nordstrom Clinic’s Crawford Research
Center in Cambridge, medical researcher Dr. Anita Thomas leads a Phase II test
of a drug to help Fibromyalgia sufferers.
The volunteer patients are divided into groups based on odd and even
identifiers with some getting the drug and others the placebo. All those with this painful illness pray they
receive the real thing and that it helps.
Test subjects 328 and 329 become friends though seemingly total
opposites even as both are sexagenarians; Helen is a Georgia Peach from
Marietta while Annie is an African-American from Roxbury. They break protocol by sharing the shots and
more. However, as Annie drives to her
nearby home, she suffers a seizure and dies.
Dr. Thomas is fired just before she was to announce
a major success and someone targeting Annie murders instead an MIT student
interested in her work. Homeland
Security changes her identity and places her under Dr. Jack Wheaton at Hamilton
Medical Center, but death follows.
The Renaissance of Aspirin is an exhilarating
medical thriller that provides the audience with a lot of info on FMS, research
and Big Pharma inside an action-packed plot.
Although the overarching premise is not new, readers will enjoy the drug
war due to a strong cast with a deep bench; as the conflict focuses between
helping the patient improve their health and helping the health industry
improve their bottom line.
Harriet Klausner
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