UNANNOUNCED is a medical thriller reminding readers that terrorist attacks do not require crumbling towers. They can be small and cumulative, chipping away bit by bit at Western culture until, finally, they threaten the very essence of life as we know it. Dr. Jonathan Harding is a liberal-thinking physician and a hospital surveyor who works with The Joint Commission, nationwide manager of hospital accreditation. He loathes the methods used by federal law enforcement agents to gather intelligence. In early 2005 Arab-Americans posing as Joint Commission surveyors attempt to conduct several...
UNANNOUNCED is a medical thriller reminding readers that terrorist attacks do not require crumbling towers. They can be small and cumulative, chipping...
Greed can be a lethal weapon in the hands of persons with power. CONDITIONAL, is a medical thriller which follows Dr. Jonathan Harding, a hospital accreditation surveyor, and his two colleagues, a nurse and a hospital administrator, during their 2005 assignment to survey a group of hospitals in the Dallas area. The three run afoul of Larry Sullivan, a sociopathic hospital CEO, when the outcome of his hospital's survey is conditional accreditation. Obsessed by greed, Sullivan also manages a profitable relationship with the drug cartels of northern Mexico. He fears the less than perfect outcome...
Greed can be a lethal weapon in the hands of persons with power. CONDITIONAL, is a medical thriller which follows Dr. Jonathan Harding, a hospital acc...
HUSH, BOY, a novel about Jonathan Harding, a young boy growing up in the Deep South, is an adventure in storytelling. This third book of a trilogy about Dr. Jonathan Harding, thoracic surgeon and hospital accreditation surveyor, is structured as a prequel to the other two. The young Jonathan longs to be older, like all the people in his life, and he searches for ways to make his grandfather love him. A curious boy, his questions about the departure of his father, about sex, about race, about life itself, are never answered by the adults around him. The only answer he gets is, "Hush, boy, we...
HUSH, BOY, a novel about Jonathan Harding, a young boy growing up in the Deep South, is an adventure in storytelling. This third book of a trilogy abo...
WILDFIRE is about fear. Fear that was prevalent in the late 1980s-fear of the poorly understood AIDS epidemic that was spreading across the nation like barely controlled wildfire. The novel tells the story of Jeremy Becker, a medical student infected by HIV as the result of a needle stick accident in a New Orleans hospital in 1987. Widespread fear triggers political overreaction that creates a dystopian world in which segregation is reborn-segregation based upon mandatory HIV blood tests. This bizarre segregation law provides automated machines that require insertion of one's HIV card to...
WILDFIRE is about fear. Fear that was prevalent in the late 1980s-fear of the poorly understood AIDS epidemic that was spreading across the nation lik...
