About This Book
Sentinel Event, Southern Style is the seventh of the Jake Stein Series of fictional mystery/medical thriller novels that deal with the Healthcare Industry's untoward incidents, mishaps, and catastrophic outcomes known as sentinel events that in reality turn out to be nefarious deeds perpetrated by people from different walks of life. As a co-protagonist character, Charlie was a high school student in the third of the Jake Stein Sentinel Event Series, Code Pink, A Sentinel Event. Now as a character in this book, he is a cadet at a prestigious military college in the Southern United States, the Virginia Military Institute known as VMI. Dr. Jacob Stein, a physician surveyor for JCAHO?the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations?was responsible for Charlie's attending Jake's Alma Mater, VMI, in the Class of 2007. As a role model for Charlie in Code Pink, A Sentinel Event, he turned Charlie's life around, scholastically and socially, and added direction, ambition and perseverance to Charlie's vocabulary. Jake returns to VMI in 2007 to investigate a potential sentinel event at a hospital in Lexington, Virginia. Jake not only reconnects with Charlie, but must also confront a nemesis from the first sentinel event book, Sentinel Event, a character who has taken an oath to kill Jake. Suspicions surface that a serious terrorist attack might soon take place on the VMI Post. It is feared that it might also spread throughout the entire Commonwealth of Virginia, perhaps throughout the United States, possibly all over the world.
