The Plague Merchants

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Summary: The Plague Merchants
Review: REVIEW: The Plague Merchants By R. Darryl Fisher

From the opening page, when a dying man in throes of approaching an agonizing death stumbles out of the dark onto a desert highway, author R. Darryl Fisher leads us on a fictional journey with to much potential of becoming reality.

If you are looking for the right or left wing extremist of general news media typecasting you will be in the wrong place with the Plague Merchants. Fisher shows the reader that terrorist may come in all sizes, shapes, intelligence and social strata. His characters motivations run the gambit from amassing wealth, to political power, to revenge as they lead us through the Boardroom of Neogenics, a biotechnology company in the Texas Hill Country to the back rooms and bedrooms of the powerful Washington elite.

When Dr. Betty Freeman, renowned forensic pathologist and member of the Neogenics board pursues the violent death of fellow board member and brother-in-law Dr. Richard Abbington, she stumbles into more then bargained for. Was he murdered, as his wife believes, or suicide as the police conclude? Did his death have something to do with his opposition to CEO Charles Dunn's demand for the early release of a cure for AIDS's in order to push company stock prices higher? Could his death have something to do with the brilliant Dr. Michelle Exter, developer of the AIDS's cure? Could it be something to do with the Top Secret lab where Dr. Exter does her secretive research?

As Freeman presses forward in search of answers she is thrown into a world of truths and half truths, covert Department of Defense funding being funneled by a powerful Senator into Dr. Exters laboratory, corrupt high level Washington politics, and revenge driven biotech terrorism.

The complexities of the characters and the basic story line leads to some sluggish development in the early chapters but as events unfold you can easily miss an appointment, or loose sleep rather then putting The Plague Merchants down.

Rating:
Summary: The Plague Merchants
Review: REVIEW:The Plague Merchants By R. Darryl Fisher

From the opening page, when a dying man in throes of approaching an agonizing death stumbles out of the dark onto a desert highway, author R. Darryl Fisher leads us on a fictional journey with to much potential of becoming reality.

If you are looking for the right or left wing extremist of general news media typecasting you will be in the wrong place with the Plague Merchants. Fisher shows the reader that terrorist may come in all sizes, shapes, intelligence and social strata. His characters motivations run the gambit from amassing wealth, to political power, to revenge as they lead us through the Boardroom of Neogenics, a biotechnology company in the Texas Hill Country to the back rooms and bedrooms of the powerful Washington elite.

When Dr. Betty Freeman, renowned forensic pathologist and member of the Neogenics board pursues the violent death of fellow board member and brother-in-law Dr. Richard Abbington, she stumbles into more then bargained for. Was he murdered, as his wife believes, or suicide as the police conclude? Did his death have something to do with his opposition to CEO Charles Dunn's demand for the early release of a cure for AIDS's in order to push company stock prices higher? Could his death have something to do with the brilliant Dr. Michelle Exter, developer of the AIDS's cure? Could it be something to do with the Top Secret lab where Dr. Exter does her secretive research?

As Freeman presses forward in search of answers she is thrown into a world of truths and half truths, covert Department of Defense funding being funneled by a powerful Senator into Dr. Exters laboratory, corrupt high level Washington politics, and revenge driven biotech terrorism.

The complexities of the characters and the basic story line leads to some sluggish development in the early chapters but as events unfold you can easily miss an appointment, or loose sleep rather then putting The Plague Merchants down.