THRESHOLD

by Daniel J. Waters

One heartbeat - and the world changes forever. Dr. Johanna Roberson thinks she has uncovered a lucrative scam in medical devices at Seattle's famous Cutter Clinic, the hospital where she is training to be a cardiac surgeon. What she has actually stumbled upon is something  much more sinister and terrifying. Teaming with Homeland Security  field agent Trip Collier they find themselves the only two people who can stop the unthinkable from happening again.

248 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 15, 2018

About the author

Daniel J. Waters is a native of southern NJ. He is a graduate of St. Joseph's College (PA) and the University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ; he also holds a Graduate Certificate in Narrative Healthcare and a Master of Arts in Writing from the Thomas Wolfe Center for Narrative at Lenoir-Rhyne University (Asheville, NC). First published as a medical student in 1981 he has authored numerous stories and essays, two widely-quoted books of surgical advice, three poems, an award-winning play, and five novels. He retired in 2019 after performing open-heart surgery for thirty years and overseeing Graduate Medical Education programs for two decades. He was a Writing Fellow for the Health Professionals website Doximity where his "Op-Med" essays were widely read. He lives with his wife in Clear Lake, Iowa.