In Dr. Richard Mabry’s latest medical suspense, Lethal Remedy, Dr. Sara Miles takes center stage as she does what all good doctors do. She cares for her patients and will do whatever it takes to help them. When one of her teenage patients contracts a highly resistant infection, Sara searches for anything to save the girl. Even if it means using an experimental antibiotic, developed and administered by her ex-husband, Dr. Jack Ingersoll. After all, it’s not such a huge risk is it? Not with the wonderful early results the new drug is receiving in clinical trials.
But when potentially lethal effects from the experimental drug rise to the surface, Sara and her colleague, Dr. Rip Pearson must figure out why and what is going on behind the scenes in the race to bring this drug to the general public.
The back cover of Lethal Remedy asks the really big question, what happens when the race to stop a lethal bacteria becomes a race to stop a killer? I can say after reading Lethal Remedy, that this question nails the plot to a T and that Dr. Mabry has penned an entertaining novel that makes you think the story has been ripped from today’s medical headlines. There are great sub-plots and a variety of characters with emotional turmoil in their lives for the reader to become invested in, but it’s the plot that kept me turning the pages.
Dr. Mabry takes his knowledge of the medical profession, combines it with a ticking clock, and gives the reader a problem we’d all be terrified to face. What more could the reader of a good medical suspense ask for.
