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Blood Trail

Blood Trail

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Finally the truth about the Arkansas prison plasma program!
Review: My introduction to this book came via an episode of CBN Now. I could not believe that people in Canada and around the world were dying because they had received tainted blood from several prisons in Arkansas during the 1980s. The news-story was very disturbing, and it certainly gave a new meaning to the term -- "Blood Money". I immediately went out and bought Michael Sullivan's, 'Blood Trail' to know more about the blood scandal. 'Blood Trail' is a cleverly written fast paced "novel" (the author had to adopt this format so as to prevent reprisal from befalling himself or his family) that has many kernels of fact within its 320 pages. Names, characters and places may have been altered, but if you read closely you will recognize them.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing stories
Review: Reading BLOOD TRAIL I, as one who would believe the worst of Bill and Hillary Clinton, was fascinated with the fictional story being told. All of the bad things I believe the Clintons are capable of were laid out in fictional detail. I don't want to ruin the read for anyone...but the last couple of pages were an "afterword" by the author (who, by the way, used a pen name to write this book)that revealed that the premise of the book was set in truth. Even supporters of the Clintons have to think about their support of them after reading this book and its disclosures that are being kept quiet by this country's media.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amazing stories
Review: Reading BLOOD TRAIL I, as one who would believe the worst of Bill and Hillary Clinton, was fascinated with the fictional story being told. All of the bad things I believe the Clintons are capable of were laid out in fictional detail. I don't want to ruin the read for anyone...but the last couple of pages were an "afterword" by the author (who, by the way, used a pen name to write this book)that revealed that the premise of the book was set in truth. Even supporters of the Clintons have to think about their support of them after reading this book and its disclosures that are being kept quiet by this country's media.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: BLOOD TRAIL LEADS TO WHITE HOUSE
Review: SAM KNIGHT, CALGARY HERALD Calgary Herald; BOOKS; Pg. K11 November 21, 1998, Saturday, FINAL EDITION Blood Trail is a well-worked thriller on a simple literary level, but it is rendered much more powerful by the basis of truth on which it is constructed. It is a fictional, but theoretically possible, story about the tainted blood scandal that has infected more than 30,000 Canadians with either hepatitis C or AIDS through blood transfusions. The plot concerns a father whose son gets AIDS as a result of a transfusion he needed after being injured in a hunting accident. Zak then unwittingly passes the virus to his wife. His father, David Farr, is driven to trace the blood and discovers a conspiracy leading through the Arkansas prison system to its former governor and present president of the United States. No prizes for guessing who. "I honestly believe that records exist with Bill Clinton's name on them," said the author in a Herald interview. "He must have been fully knowledgeable." Recently "Michael Sullivan" revealed his true identity -- Michael Galster to give his cause more credence. He had used the pseudonym fearing for the lives of his wife, five children and himself. Galster has worked since the late '70s as a prosthetist in Arkansas and has had contracts with the state penitentiary, where he first suspected blood was being taken from prisoners and sold throughout North America. In 1978-79, inmates with jaundice came to his prosthetic clinic with bandages on their arms. He was shocked to find they had given blood, despite having infected livers. In his ignorance Galster assumed there must be a means of cleaning the blood before it reached the market. "The second red flag came when prisoners came to me asking for percodan, a narcotic," explained Galster. This was the currency with which prisoners were paid for their blood. The appalled Galster recalled the case of Danny Sanders, an inmate who, in his craving for the drug, injected himself in the knee with saliva which brings on a potentially fatal infection. Sanders ended up having his leg amputated at the hip and his family brought a legal suit against the penitentiary. Galster charted the existence of the health contractor, HMA, which conducted the blood operation. According to his research, it employed doctors who had been struck off the list for various misdemeanours. HMA was closed down after an inquiry in 1981, but Galster claims its plasma-collection unit continued to work right up until Clinton moved to the White House in 1991. Of course, records are scarce. Clinton has taken all his personal papers to the White House and the commission that first fingered the HMA lost all its records in a fire in 1990. Even if the facts still have to be investigated fully, Blood Trail is well worth reading purely as a thriller. The story is fast paced, the characters well defined and the action, often drawn from Galster's own experiences is explosive. Add all this to the medical scandal, which no feeling human being can ignore, and the result is compulsive reading.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A red hot political thriller with a dose of reality
Review: While I am not normally a big fan of fiction, the fact that this novel is based on a political scandal that is still largly buried in the US media intrigued me (for the truth about "Blood Trail, search Canadian media web sites or worldnetdaily) As a political/medical thriller, it is above par. The writting is a bit pedestrian and the characters, with the exception of the lead character David Farr, lack depth. However the book takes you on a wild roller coaster ride filled with suprising plot twists and excitment.David Farr is out to get those who, by knowingly let tainted blood be shipped for medical use, infected his son with the aids virus. Along the way he must breakthrough a vast cover up while trying to outwit the pursuing "dixie mafia" intent on keeping the story buried by any means nessacary. The fact that this novel is loosely (very loosely) based on actual events makes it all the more frighting. Still more frighting are the attacks, threats and harrasment the author recieved after this book was published, even though it was written with a pseudonym.Definitly worth reading.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A red hot political thriller with a dose of reality
Review: While I am not normally a big fan of fiction, the fact that this novel is based on a political scandal that is still largly buried in the US media intrigued me (for the truth about "Blood Trail, search Canadian media web sites or worldnetdaily) As a political/medical thriller, it is above par. The writting is a bit pedestrian and the characters, with the exception of the lead character David Farr, lack depth. However the book takes you on a wild roller coaster ride filled with suprising plot twists and excitment.David Farr is out to get those who, by knowingly let tainted blood be shipped for medical use, infected his son with the aids virus. Along the way he must breakthrough a vast cover up while trying to outwit the pursuing "dixie mafia" intent on keeping the story buried by any means nessacary. The fact that this novel is loosely (very loosely) based on actual events makes it all the more frighting. Still more frighting are the attacks, threats and harrasment the author recieved after this book was published, even though it was written with a pseudonym.Definitly worth reading.


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