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Palmer, Michael Miracle Cure Bantam January 5, 1999 Paperback used: very good The drug is called Vasclear, a heart medication being developed at the Bost on Heart Institute by Newbury Pharmaceuticals. The FDA is being pressured b y a Massachusetts senator (who, it turns out, is secretly taking Vasclear h imself) to approve the release of the drug. And Vasclear may be the magic w and that can save the life of Jack "Coach" Holbrook, whose health is declin ing after a quintuple bypass. Coach's son, Brian (an M.D. living at home an d working as a rental-car gofer while he recovers from an addiction to pain killers), not only faces the ethical dilemma of stealing the drug if he can 't place his father as a test patient but also finds evidence of potentiall y dangerous side effects?evidence that could derail the drug's release to t he public. The characters are sitcom thin, the moral dilemma is barely rais ed before it's resolved and the inclusion of a Chechen Mafia subplot only s erves to transport the story further into an unlikely realm, where otherwis e efficient killers do nothing more dangerous than send the hero a threat i n the mail and members of drug and alcohol recovery groups know more about pharmaceutical companies than the FDA. Palmer's thriller-friendly prose, pa cing and plotting draw readers on here, but, like Vasclear, his novel shoul d have spent more time in development before it hit the shelves. Price: 3.50 USD
