Mark Roger Bailey

Beyond These Woods Mark Roger Bailey 1st edition

Dr. Lotte Keene, epidemiologist, is an irrepressible force of nature who solves complex scientific, medical and criminal crises that place her in the path of determined government and corporate interests. While struggling to come to terms with the death of her partner, Charley, in a horrific outbreak, she discovers a telltale repetition of the symptomology of Charley?s sudden death ? this time in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. With an obsessive need to avenge her loss, she goes to Longwood, California and confronts her darkest fear. To the CDC, Lotte?s breach of protocol is insubordination. To the environmental activist, Gabriel Fox, she is a complication. To America?s elite intelligence apparatus, she?s a threat to national security. To Longwood?s Doctor Ben McCandle, she is a challenge to everything he thinks he knows about medical science. High in the Sierra old-growth forest, Lotte must determine if the ?Ahwahnee Stroke?, as locals call it, is a corruption of Natural Law or a criminal act, and must stop it before it spreads beyond the Thunder Peak Wilderness. Local suspicions of her motives mount, calculating corporate powers grow more sinister, dark operatives from Washington move against her work ? and time is running out. Dr. Lotte Keene is about to rewrite the rules of biogenetic science and cross the thin red, white and blue line between American principle and power.