The Health Center — John Sager

In this, his eleventh novel, octogenarian/author John Sager writes about a close-to-home subject, our nation's health care system. As the resident of a thriving retirement community, he explores the proposition that America's health centers have not always been what the are today: dishonest physicians who prescribe drugs that have no medicinal value, grossly-inflated charges for routine health care procedures, the country's largest eldercare conglomerate that is heavily influenced by Chicago's Mafia and whose accounts are controlled by an unaccountable financier in the Cayman Islands. As the story unfolds, lawyers and judges begin to target the offenders, asking hard questions and demanding truthful answers. Finally, the culprits are identified and punished, but only after being prodded to do so by a persistent Seattle law firm.