Weapon of Choice

Life is good for Dr. Laura Nelson. Her kids have their ups and downs, but seem well adjusted to high school and college; her research project at the university is going well; and she is highly regarded as the chief of surgery at Tampa City Hospital. This sense of tranquility is disrupted when she is drawn into the diagnosis of the first case of HIV/AIDS seen in Tampa.

But the challenge of this new disease is dwarfed by the disaster that impacts Laura’s life a few days later. A highly resistant bacterial infection is raging in the surgical intensive care unit, and patients are dying. To make matters worse, Laura’s daughter is exposed to the bacteria and begins to show symptoms.

Desperate at this point, Laura calls her young friend, Dr. Stacy Jones, at the CDC in Atlanta. Stacy arrives in Tampa, unaware that a deadly plot is underway in Atlanta as a covert white supremacist cell plans an unthinkable attack on a massive scale.

Caught in the middle, Laura and Stacy encounter an opportunity to connect the Tampa nightmare with the impending Atlanta devastation, but can they prevent it?

“Gussin has written a top-notch thriller that's tough to put down, offering an emotional roller coaster ride full of tense suspense.” — Lansing State Journal “Gussin’s background gives this taut novel an emo-tional truthfulness that strikes home. If you like James Patterson, Robert Dugoni, or David Baldacci, you’ll probably enjoy And Then There Was One.” — Mystery Scene Magazine “Only a physician who is also a great writer could have crafted this novel. The suspense is riveting, the pacing masterful. Patricia Gussin is a wonderful storyteller, and Shadow of Death is medical suspense at its best.” —Michael Palmer author of eleven New York Times best-selling medical suspense novels