Set Apart

As the President marks the first anniversary of federally-run health care with speeches and a parade, a D.C. detective investigates the disappearance of a woman from a parking lot. A few city blocks away, his sister works as a health care databank administrator, privy to the goings-on of the mighty Health Care Board and the potent behind-the-scenes data that rank people by level of importance. Ninety minutes to the north, in sleepy Dorsey Pennsylvania, his physician brother witnesses the steady decline of his patients’ health services. From different vantage points, they’re seeing evidence of the same collusion rising at the juncture of power and self-interest. This debut novel by a former U.S. Department of Health and Human Services information-systems specialist, is a chilling tale too plausible to ignore – of corruption and moral perversion that could be a threat to us all. It will leave you wondering whether it could really happen, whether it’s happening even now to someone, somewhere.