The Perfect Match

Frank Esposito has an incurable lung disease and needs a double lung transplant

in a matter of months in order to survive.

Arch City Transplant Center just opened in St. Louis, MO and is challenging

cultural and ethical paradigms in end-of-life decisions and in the organ

transplant business. ACTC is run by brilliant doctors: Dr. Alex Finnegan and

Dr. Ellen James-Calabrese who will push each other and society to create a

business that will be worth billions of dollars but unbeknownst to Dr. Calabrese,

Finnegan is using his colleagues, investors, and the poor as pawns to get what he

truly wants.

While Finnegan seems to be unstoppable and untouchable, a series of carjackings

and murders being investigated by St. Louis homicide Detective, Rhonda Simon

threatens Finnegan's plans. With the help of a compassionate organ transplant nurse

and one of Finnegan's business partners, Detective Simon realizes her current cases

are connected to a crime bigger than she originally thought.

Meanwhile, Dr. James-Calabrese's ex-husband, Vinnie Calabrese will stop at

nothing, including jeopardizing his ex-wife's career to get his brother-in-law,

Frank, the lifesaving double lung transplant he needs.

Inspired by first-time author Steve Pizzolato's brother-in-law's battle for a

double lung transplant, The Perfect Match is a crime filled adventure of murder,

everyday people, ethics, the U.S. healthcare system, the 'My Body, My Choice'

movement, and how it is all connected to impact our future in more ways

than we can imagine. The novel set in St. Louis will introduce readers to a city

known nationally for its crime statistics but also a city with world class health

institutions, old world neighborhoods, and parks that make St. Louis, despite its

national reputation, a very livable community.