Prescription for Death

Prescription For DeathA gang of criminals devise a scheme to defraud insurance companies by faking heart attacks. Their plot includes a method of altering cardiograms, a relatively new diagnostic tool in 1931, the setting of this story. Stuart Downing, a young physician, suspects the scheme, but digging out the evidence proves a deadly pursuit. Downing is up against a devious lawyer, unscrupulous doctors, crooked insurance agents and killers. Downing must match his ingenuity against theirs with an unimaginable threat lurking at his every move.__________________________________________________Praise for the novels of Barry FriedmanDead End" supplies his readers with plenty of tension right to the end."-Inscriptions Magazine" Lively police procedural."-San Diego Union-Tribune" Fantastic story."-Huntress Book ReviewsAssignment: Bosnia"Exceptionally well-written thriller."-Shirley Allen, author of Roxanna Britton"This thriller kept me glued to the pages."-Oceanside reviewer"Very suspenseful."-AllReaders.comThe ShroudAwarded runner-up Best Novel, suspense/thriller category, 2001 San Diego Book Awards.