A Cure by Death by Brian Dorner

About the book

"Delphe’s cough exploded and forced her to double over. She’d had coughing fits like this before, but never with so much blood…This one had her scared." Thus begins A Cure By Death, an action-packed, medical thriller that pits a young female researcher against a sinister eugenic plot.

Stephanie Drier is a struggling Ph.D. at MolecTech, a small bioengineering company. She is only steps away from completing her hepatitis cure when a freak accident contaminates her microbacterial strain. Ned Templeton, her oppressive supervisor, is unperturbed even when Stephanie’s research reveals that the contaminant is intimately associated with the deadly Latent Anti-Immune Virus. When she discovers that the contamination has been engineered to enter her hepatitis cure, and one of her coworkers is bizarrely murdered, she must run for her life. Her desperate plight forces her into a strained relationship with Paul Mastovik, a jaded private investigator, who finds himself sucked into the diabolical plot. As they come closer to discovering the origins of this deadly "urban weapon", they find themselves caught in a complex web of treachery that rises to the highest echelons of government with the involvement of the President’s health reform guru. Now, as the seconds tick away on their hunted lives, they must uncover the mastermind behind this sinister plot before it is too late for them and the thousands soon to be infected.

About the author

A native of the Midwest, Brian Dorner, MD obtained the idea for his first novel while doing research in molecular biology, and in the summer before attending the University of Michigan Medical School he wrote A Cure by Death. He revised the book while obtaining his medical degree, sometimes editing between patients during early morning rounds. Dr. Dorner is currently working on his next book while completing a plastic surgery residency program at a major academic university.