Their aim: absolute control of the medical profession. Their method: destruction of the mind ...Hard-up student Jason Schonberg abandoned his scruples to join Arolen, undisputed giant of the pharmaceuticals industry. Yet the more he discovered about Arolen, the less he liked. Then came the new baby. And the launch of a new wonder drug -- which his wife's own doctor wants to prescribe. A coincidence. Too much of a coincidence ...
Who was the real killer? Romain Fornier lost his reason for living when his daughter was kidnapped and murdered. He used a cop's gun to mete out his own justice and spent the next few years in prison. Once he was freed, he returned to his Cajun roots in small-town Louisiana. But now he learns that he might have killed the wrong man. Jasmine Stratford, a psychological profiler, is convinced his daughter's killer is still alive-and that she and Romain have somethi...
The past. Sometimes we can't escape it. After a bad break-up, August is trying to piece his life back together. It's not perfect - his flat is small, he works in a call centre, he can't finish the book he's working on, and he's hopelessly awkward when it comes to relationships. When August meets Julie, he finds she's everything he isn't - confident, composed, and purposeful, despite her troubled childhood. With her, August finally feels he can be himself. But Julie has a secret - one that threat...
"Drury is a truly great writer."--Esquire "A beguiling novel . . . perceptive and captivating."--The New York Times "Startling and utterly original."--Newsday In this mesmerizing novel, Tom Drury once again journeys to the quiet Midwest to spend an action-packed October weekend in the lives of a precarious family whose members all want something without knowing how to get it: for Charles, an heirloom shotgun; for his wife, Joan, the imaginative life she once knew; for their young son, Micah, a...
