Dark Market

By Peter Jay Quesenberry and Sharon Harpel

How far would you go to make money from desperate people who only want to live a little longer? How much would you pay to save your own life? How do you buy time? Dr. Joe Parker, a talented and successful hematologist/oncologist and world-renowned researcher left his job as Head of the Cancer Center at the state medical center in Mountville, Massachusetts after having to save his lab, his career and maybe his life from a group of colleagues that would stop at nothing to achieve their aims of money, power and status. Joe, never one to give up on himself, his team or his patients, finds a new home at the James Pemberton in Providence, Rhode Island. He is so looking forward to a fresh start in a nice city with his beloved wife, June. James Pemberton is really a community hospital with some academic ties. Small potatoes compared to Mountville so how bad could this small place really be? A popular saying goes, "good things come in small packages". The opposite was true at James Pemberton where it turns out bad things; really bad things also come in small packages. The Hippocratic Oath says, "First do no harm". As Joe was about to find out not all his colleagues who'd sworn this oath cared about upholding it. They were more interested in saving their own skins, making money and getting away with murder if it meant saving themselves and their careers. Joe was about to learn some economics including the theory of supply and demand. He learned there are people who will buy what normally is not for sale if it is a matter of life and death and there are those who will sell what isn't theirs to sell if properly motivated. Fear and the need for money are good motivators and as it turns out there is plenty of both in the outwardly pleasant hospital Joe now calls home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1548162132
• ISBN13: 9781548162139
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.3" x 6.0"