A young russian emigree works in the billing department of a medical business that provides no goods or services. She falls in love with a married plastic surgeon after he performs a procedure on her.Â
When did the healing arts become the stealing arts? This is the question faced by Ashley Danforth, a disillusioned Assistant Attorney General whose caseload leads straight into the fray of health care ethics, fraud, waste, abuse -- and murder. Danforth's discoveries put her squarely at odds with her boss's dreams of political triumph and in the crosshairs of an industry with an insatiable appetite for money.
Alfredo Chandler's breakout novel deftly handles these and other complex themes in the groundbreaking health care reform thriller, Caduceus Merger. The book's issues couldn't be more timely--or the stakes more deadly.