10/12/2009
Books: Blogging:: 0 comments: by Beth Solheim
A novel of compelling psychic suspense.
Even though psychic Sherry Moore has been cerebrally blind since childhood, she can visual the last memories of a dead person’s life by touching their hand. This gift makes her a valuable asset in solving crimes.
While working on a case to determine the deaths of several people in New Mexico, Sherry’s life is drastically changed when she is exposed to deadly radioactive cesium 137. Frightened by the possible threat of cancer, Sherry returns to her home in Philadelphia for tests and treatment.
Dr. Salix, who has worked with Sherry for years to understand her invaluable, controversial gift, calls upon her to touch the hand of Thomas Monohan, an 80-year-old man who has lingered in a vegetative state in an institution for sixty years. Distinct and horrifying images from the elderly man’s memory flood Sherry’s thoughts. When she wakes after the alarming episode, her sight has returned.
Struggling to function in an unfamiliar world, Sherry tries to understand how this elderly man enabled her to regain her sight. With the help of her friend, the retired Admiral Brigham, Sherry learns that Private Monohan, who had been declared dead in Korea in 1950, was found incoherent and wandering in the woods after escaping from an institution. Within a short time, the guard who found Monohan apparently committed suicide.
Sherry begins to untangle Monohan’s history and uncovers a highly-classified project involving the government and the pharmaceutical giant Case & Kimble. Unproven rumors regarding how Case built his multi-billion dollar empire had circulated for years and Case still stops at nothing to maintain his prominence and preserve his empire.
Sherry discovers that Monohan’s memories center around a secret military base in New York where Case had tested a secret weapon on humans. Case enlists his stepson, Troy Weir, a handsome sociopath, to dispose of Sherry. Weir also desires to protect the Case legacy, but first intends to satisfy his own passion with a bit of seduction and torture.
Dark secrets in the pharmaceutical trade are exposed as Sherry fights to uncover corruption and find justice for those troops wronged by a government eager to gain an edge over their enemies.
George Shuman doesn’t disappoint in this fourth in the series. A riveting story with great twists.
