“Exciting and thought-provoking—the perfect package.” -Lee Child, NY Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher Series

“Tension and turmoil add up to high stakes suspense in this all too real thriller, about a seedy and sorted world that rings with authenticity. The line between right and wrong is not only smudged, its smeared across the page.” -Steve Berry, New York Times # 1 bestselling author

“A fascinating, troubling glimpse into the heart and soul of a black market organ dealer, which turn out to be even more complicated than we suspected. He’s a man who gazes at the stars while engaging in some of the most nefarious negotiations possible on this planet, a man capable of greed, regret, and love in equal measures. A gripping portrait of a man in conflict with himself.”
-Daniel Asa Rose, author of Larry's Kidney: Being the True Story of How I Found Myself in China With my Black Sheep Cousin and His Mail-Order Bride, Skirting the Law to Get Him a Transplant ... and Save His Life, which was named “one of the top books of the year” by Publishers Weekly

"The Organ Broker is so richly imagined and executed I felt I was reading a memoir, not a work of fiction. Stu Strumwasser is a hugely talented writer. Read the first page and you won’t want to stop.”
-Don (D.J. Donaldson), author of the Andy Broussard/Kit Franklyn forensic mystery series and numerous medical thrillers.

"Powerful, original, and gut-wrenching. Stu Strumwasser takes us into the foreboding world of black market organ brokers, where each line crossed proves more dangerous than the last."
-Barry Lancet, author of Japantown and Tokyo Kill

"A thrilling narrative about the very real world of organ trafficking where human bodies in the third world are spare parts for patients in the first world. When The Organ Broker has a crisis of conscience Strumwasser asks if it's possible for him to make amends. The answer is both shocking and provocative."
-Scott Carney author of The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers and Child Traffickers.

Marketing/Advertising

The author is the co-founder and COO/CMO for a social media company called Tengrade, and experienced with online marketing and advertising in grassroots campaigns.

In addition to a publisher’s marketing activities the author has specific plans to supplement those efforts with focused online advertising, social media marketing and direct marketing to readers such as those mentioned above.

The subject of organ transplantation and the related black market is a fascinating and timely topic of great interest to a broad swath of the population. “Medical Thrillers” have grown in popularity and “The Organ Broker” could be a substantial success in the category by appealing to that already-developed audience. Uptake from this audience could generate sales that will turn the book into a bestseller and lead to even more broad-based attention from readers of all thrillers and also literary thrillers. The success of novels like “Never Let Me Go” and movies like “Dirty Pretty Things” and “Seven Pounds” has helped to prove and seed the market for artistic products based on the subject of organ transplantation. The success of novelists like Robin Cook, Michael Palmer, Tess Geritson, Patricia Cornwell is further proof.

There are over 100,000 Americans on the various versions of the UNOS waiting lists for organ recipients. There are now upwards of 400,000 Americans currently receiving dialysis treatment. Twenty-nine million have diabetes…. Those patients, their friends and families, as well as the supporting medical community are potentially passionate “Early Adopters.” Over the last few years, while Strumwasser was writing and researching this novel, every time such a relevant film or book was released he got multiple calls or emails from interested parties within the transplant community. Such will be the case when “The Organ Broker” is released. “That’s how things start sometimes.”