A 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.
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Praise for the novels of Barry Friedman
"Dead 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 Reviews"
"Assignment: Bosnia"
"Exceptionally well-written thriller."
--Shirley Allen, author of "Roxanna Britton"
"This thriller kept me glued to the pages."
--Oceanside reviewer
"Very suspenseful."
--"AllReaders.com"
"The Shroud"
Awarded runner-up Best Novel, suspense/thriller category, 2001 San Diego Book Awards.
