Bought from the Los Osos Library book sale today.

I was in need of some escape reading and this book provided it. So much so that I was reading it everywhere until it was done. So I'd have to say it did its job.

I am not a big fan of thrillers in general but sometimes I find medical or legal thrillers interesting. This is a medical thriller.

Interestingly, the story is told through several different people. The primary characters are a private investigator, Ben Callahan, and a medical student, Natalie Reyes. The two are set on different journeys from different locations by different stimuli, and end up in the same place. Callahan is offered a job investigating the death of an unknown young man in Florida, while Reyes is attacked in a different country.

It all comes down to a group of persons from around the world who are arranging for or performing transplant operations for persons considered of great value. But from where are they getting the organs?

The story held my interest even though it wasn't that much of a mystery. One thing I wondered: if a high-level person obtains a transplant illegally, then goes home to his home country, how does he explain what has happened to him?

Inside the box.