The Cure
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Publisher Description
How far would you go to lose weight and feel sexy? Is it worth your life?
Restore Tabs are sweeping the nation. This miracle drug not only helps women lose weight and feel better, it also increases their sex drive. Restore Tabs are a feminine version of Viagra, and best of all, they’re all-natural. Pioneering herb company Ecolabs sees the pills as the next St. John’s wort, the next ginseng, the next echinacea, and is pulling out all the stops to push the pills on the public.
Steve McClaren is a handsome young doctor who is Ecolabs’ chief spokesperson, and he prescribes their products to many of his patients. But suddenly many of his female patients are getting terribly sick, and he’s struggling to find out why. When all signs point to Restore Tabs, McClaren quickly works to find the truth, while staying just one step ahead of someone who apparently wants him dead.
The author of the New York Times bestseller The Unborn and The Center, Shobin returns with another terrifying medical thriller, ripped from today’s headlines.
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Shobin's latest medical thriller seizes on the recent surge in the use of herbal supplements in large doses and takes the potential danger to its lethal extreme. Dr. Steve McLaren, a Long Island M.D. with a troubled past, displays herbal supplements made by Ecolabs in his office and touts them in TV ads as a favor to Ted DiGiorgio, a med-school dropout friend who founded the herbal supplement company. A hot new product is Restore-Tabs, a miracle weight-loss supplement that also enhances female sex drive and counters the effects of aging. Steve calls Ted when some patients using the product develop extreme vaginal bleeding, but Ted pleads ignorance. When the situation worsens, Steve is put on to the Ecolabs PR head, the alluring Francesca Taylor, who suggests that he do his own field test with his patients using Restore-Tabs and placebos. Romance ensues, but when Steve contacts the FDA, attempts are made on his life, scandalous rumors about him begin to circulate and patient files are stolen. As Ted grows erratic and paranoid, Francesca offers to sneak Steve into Ted's office to retrieve secret information to build a case for the FDA. Shobin (Terminal Condition), a physician himself, builds a credible medical plot with unscrupulous Third World field tests and greedy entrepreneurs. The parallel narrative unfolding in Indonesia is at least as engrossing as the American section of the book, but the writing throughout tends toward ham-fistedness, and readers may have a hard time swallowing many of the outlandish plot twists.
