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What's it about?
Dr Ronnie Ackerman wakes up in bed alone. Her boss, Nobel Prize-winner Professor Hasely Stone, and the man she got drunk with the night before, is downstairs in the sauna, brutally murdered.
Who did this, and why?
Stone had been working with total dedication on the ultimate cure for all cancers. Was he killed because he failed, or because he succeeded?
Ronnie panics, clears the house of all traces of her overnight stay, and then sets out on a mission to find out.
Bobs and Books review:
This did take me a little while to settle in to as there is a lot going to start with and it all seemed a bit chaotic. Once it settled down, I was then cynical it might come across as a but too far fetched, but as it progresses, I changed my mind. A great set of characters and challenges along the way. A couple of surprises too. I loved Alice as a side character, and there are some feisty women which I love to see.
This moves at a good pace and has plenty of events to keep the reader on their toes. Never a dull moment!
An interesting concept used and one I was intrigued to see if it could work. This is a very intricate web of entanglement of characters which was clever.
Entertaining and engaging read.
About the author:
TV journalist Roger Corke has spent more years that he cares to remember travelling to all parts of the world, making investigative documentaries for series like the BBC's Panorama, Channel 4's Dispatches and ITV's World In Action and Tonight. It was whilst he was on a filming trip to America that he came up with the plot of Deadly Protocol.
"I was talking to a scientist working there who told me that they had made great strides in cancer research over the past few years." says Roger. "I asked him whether that meant a cure for cancer might come soon. His answered floored me. He said 'they may have found a cure for cancer but a lot of people would have a lot to lose if it ever saw the light of day'. Straight away, the plot for a thriller jumped out at me."
Out now.
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