Killing Time — Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

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America's beautiful people are playing follow-the-leader with their latest guru, diet doctor Felix Foxx. As Foxx's disciples are dropping pounds, however, U.S. military leaders are dropping like flies. Coincidence? Maybe. But CURE's been counting causalities, and Remo and Chiun are being dispatched to muscle in and settle the score.

They arrive too late at Foxx's fat farm -- a fool's paradise where the wealthy go to buy time. And where, it appears, the smart set are losing a lot more than cellulite...

Our heroes stumble onto an insidious plot -- one that's eating away at the very core of Western civilization. And even racing against time, they've got a slim chance of stopping it...