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Loading... A Cure to Die For: A Medical Thriller (edition 2011)by Stephen G. Mitchell
Work InformationA Cure to Die For: A Medical Thriller by Stephen G. Mitchell
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  readingover50 | Jun 11, 2019 |   The intriguing premise of this book is plausible. Would the world welcome such a medicine? Mitchell's story flows gracefully, urging the reader along to a satisfying conclusion. I'd recommend this book for almost everyone except those who will only read literary fiction. The author provides characters you'll enjoy, a variety of locations and situations, and plenty of action. Travel from Montana to Texas, from Mexican jungles to the Navajo Nation, on the run and trying to preserve a plant-based cure and the seeds needed for more plants. I enjoyed this book. (  ) Rascalstar | Jan 21, 2017 |  ) Jjean7 | Mar 10, 2015 |  ) linsleo | Jul 25, 2014 | This audiobook presentation is awful. The novel's storyline is implausible at the macro and micro levels and the dramatization is pathetic. The narrator can't read his lines in the right rhythm and the characters' accents are way off base. The Asian guy slips and slides into an Irish accent and the fantastically well-educated scientist sounds like he grew up speaking Yiddish. The elderly woman Annie has the voice of a 30 year old and she lacks the requisite North Carolina accent. The music is lifted straight from Firefly. I could not bear more than a half-hour of this thing. I received a review copy of the audiobook A Cure to Die For by Stephen G Mitchell through Librarything.com. (  ) Dokfintong | Jun 27, 2014 | no reviews | add a review
A genetically engineered cure for the common cold turns out to be a cure for cancer. It threatens to put a major pharmaceutical company, along with about half the medical community, out of business. They will stop at nothing to destroy it before it destroys them.Amid harrowing kidnappings, manhunts, political and corporate intrigue, Wall Street corruption, drug addiction, suicides, arrests and terrifying escapes--in the Montana wilderness, in the high-tech world of Houston, Texas, in the political cesspool of Washington, D.C., in the teeming jungles of Mexico and on a 26,000 square mile Indian reservation--a man and a woman fight to survive the perilous journey where the fate of a healthy planet hinges on the survival of a tiny seed.A crisis of medical and corporate greed sweeps the country. The government and the media conspire with the medical industry to keep a miracle drug off the market. The book is a medical thriller that is part adventure, part mystery and part love story; a novel about two people who stand against a broken world. No library descriptions found. |
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I was looking forward to reading this book because I love medical thrillers. The premise of this book, that the big pharmaceutical companies and doctors would try to stop a cure for cancer because it would lose them money, is completely believable. My daughter has leukemia, and the $5,000 per month that we have to pay for drugs is criminal.
So this was a fast paced story. The characters were believable and interesting. There were several romances in the book that I enjoyed watching develop. I was rooting for Otis and Eloise to get together. It did seem a little too convenient that the heroes would have such easy access to unlimited funds, but the evil of the politicians and drug companies was very believable. Unfortunately there are too many people in the world who worry more about making a profit than doing what is right. (