If I Should Kill

by Tom Bleakley

Obtaining FDA approval to market a drug is knowing the right people and taking good care of them. It has nothing to do with good science. It s a matter of form over substance and it s good form to take care of your friends. When an unfaithful husband headed toward an unwanted divorce takes a drug noted for its effects of causing bizarre behavior and winds up killing his wife, who is to blame? Is it the killer or the avaricious drug company making huge profits and trying to hide news of the drug s terrible effects? A jury decides guilt or innocence . . . or does it? Lawyer Bob Riley can t stand the thought of how this is going to end. He has to let the world know what this company did. . . . He promised himself that whatever time he had left he was going to spend telling this story. He got out of bed, put on his street clothes, and walked to the nursing station and signed himself out of the hospital. AMA they called it. Against medical advice. He went home and started writing. *"If I Should Kill" is an updated revision of the previously published "Serenity."

438 pages, Paperback

Published January 31, 2018