Blood Double

Carroll Monks #2

by Neil McMahon

The well-dressed gentleman dumped from a limousine into the parking lot of San Francisco's Mercy Hospital was not your typical junkie hovering near death from a heroin overdose. Attending physician Dr. Carroll Monks knows something's very strange -- and very wrong -- even before a phalanx of lawyers and doctors appears out of nowhere to whisk his recovering patient away . . . and a suspicious fire destroys all evidence that the man was ever there. But the sinister conspiracy surrounding the disappearance of a billionaire computer wunderkind is deeper and murkier than Monks could have possibly guessed. Suddenly his ethics and his curiosity are dragging Carroll Monks into a nightmare of outlaw technology, corporate greed, and inhuman experimentation -- and placing him in the deadly path of powerful forces who will stop at nothing to speed the coming of a dark and terrible future.

336 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

aka Daniel Rhodes.



Neil McMahon grew up in Chicago, holds a degree in psychology from Stanford, and has lived in Montana since 1971. His wife, Kim, coordinates the annual Montana Festival Of The Book. Along with writing, he spent many years working as a carpenter. He has published ten thrillers in addition to co-authoring, with James Patterson, the #1 New York Times bestseller, TOYS. His first three novels, horror thrillers NEXT, AFTER LUCIFER; ADVERSARY; and CAST ANGELS DOWN TO HELL, are newly released for the first time since their original publication 1987-90.

Reviews

[Alyssa Profenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall, Blood Double was an interesting and fun read. The only thing I didn’t understand was the “flashbacks” to the main character’s military past. It didn’t seem to add anything to the character development and had little relation to the plot of the book.

That being said, I would recommend this book for a quick read.

[Melet]

Man brought in by limo w/heroin overdose. While he's recovering, lawyers & doctors take him away, then fire destroys his blood samples. Missing computer whiz-

[Eileen Taylor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad...

[Jlither · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun weekend book.