Choke
by Lisa Towles
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Pub Date Jun 19 2017 | Archive Date Jul 07 2017
Description
A scientist develops a cigarette that cures lung cancer
and tries to push it out to the market before Big Pharma thugs get to him first.
Kerry Stine heads to her job at San Francisco General Hospital to discover a patient has gone missing on her watch from ICU. She’s blamed for the disappearance, immediately suspended, and there’s a warrant for her arrest. Meanwhile, a stranger shows up at her apartment with his own key...while she’s home. For Kerry, tracking the missing ICU patient sets in motion a chain reaction of random events and strange coincidences that all circle back to a past that can’t possibly be hers. Can it?
Three thousand miles away, scientist Adrian Calhoun has developed a cigarette that cures lung cancer. But will he get the opportunity to publicize his creation before Big Pharma gets to him first?
Multi-layered and relentlessly paced, Choke intertwines two compelling stories into one riveting conclusion, while leading its unwitting heroine down the perilous path toward truth and redemption.
Advance Praise
Praise for Lisa Towles & Choke
“Towles takes the reader on a heart-pounding journey involving a San Francisco woman who is blamed for something she didn’t do, and an east coast scientist, who has drawn the ire of Big Pharma because his discovery could cost them millions. It’s a smart, well-written thriller that will deliver on the big screen someday as well as it does on the page.”
—Leo Bottary, author of The Power of Peers
“A cigarette that cures lung cancer?
What could be better than that for a smoker? Who could be against such a concept? If you can’t figure that out, just heed the basic advice of any crime investigation—follow the money, which is what Lisa Towles has done in her magnificent story, Choke. I read this with the pleasurable company of a pack of Marlboros…smokin’ good read!”
—Les Edgerton, Award-winning author of The Death of Tarpons,
The Bitch, The Genuine, Imitation, Plastic Kidnapping
“When medical assistant Kerry Stine loses her job over a missing cancer patient it leads to her uncovering a long buried secret from her own past. Skillfully interweaving Stine’s story with the dog-eat-dog world of pharmaceutical research, this is a cleverly-conceived, fast-paced thriller that will keep you guessing right up to the last chapter.”
—Ian Barker, author of One Hot Summer
“Choke’s complex characters fascinated me. Its layered dilemmas—threating both individual lives and the lives of cancer victims across the world – grabbed me by the throat. Lisa Towles’ new thriller is a must-read. It kept me in suspense the whole way through
—and inspired me in the process.
—Judith Schiess Avila, NYT Best-Selling author of Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by one of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781944077174 |
| PRICE | $12.99 (USD) |
