gut wrenching medical thriller | Sledgehammer

book: Sledgehammer | Paulo J. Reyes

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	• Sledgehammer Paulo J. Reyes Virtual Word Publishing, Inc., 2005 - 200 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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Sledgehammer by Paulo Reyes

It has been a long time since I have read a book that I simply could not put down. Sledgehammer was that book. I am a scientist by profession, so I was able to really relate to the whole bioterrorism/Virus research plot of the book. I also believe that someone with out a science backgroud would also love this book. It is well written and keeps you on the edge of your seat. The book is fiction, but could this really happen? Scary!

gut wrenching medical thriller

A year ago a DUI killed his beloved wife Leana, leaving ER physician Dr. Max Kroose to raise their two preadolescent children alone except for their nanny Esmeralda. After dropping the kids at school, Dr. Kroose expects a normal day of traumas and tragedy. As always, ER is overwhelmed so when his son takes a nasty spill at school, but is okay he has no time to pick him up.

A patient arrives with strange symptoms that reminds Max somewhat of smallpox yet seems more powerful than a disease most people thought eradicated. As the clock ticks, Max becomes increasingly convinced that they are dealing with a lethal strand of smallpox. He fails to persuade the skeptical bottom line hospital administrator Kilgorn to arrange mass vaccination to prevent a pandemic spread. His only chance resides with his friend a bio-weapons researcher, but even if he somehow receives help, Max knows that the potential for spreading has walked out the hospital door numerous times.

This is a gut wrenching medical thriller that centers on how relatively easy the spread of a bio-weapon can occur in this country. Max keeps the story line realistic and together as he goes from the daily troubles of a single dad who has had no time to mourn his loss to fears for his two children and others from a stalking killer. His frustrations mount as he fails to convince anyone that vaccination is needed as the health system calculates the cost as greater than the risk. Paulo J. Reyes provides a SLEDGEHAMMER to a system that set up to insure mass failure when (not if) the crisis happens.

Harriet Klausner

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