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"Prescription For Death" 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. _____________________________________ 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.