Behind the foreboding walls of Massachusetts’ Harlowe Institute, scores of mentally impaired patients struggle with daily life, barely getting by on counseling and pills. But, less than an hour away, and as yet unknown to Harlowe’s afflicted, a champion is on their side. Dr. Jonathan Chastain and a young colleague at a company known as GODS are developing cutting-edge medical techniques holding great promise for the mentally ill. Eventually, GODS’ new formulations are quietly introduced in clinical trials at Harlowe and other institutions. Dramatic responses across a broad sampling of sick patients shake the medical world. What no one has factored in, however, is the subsequent discovery of unintended consequences of the medicine, patient alterations that scientists heretofore would have judged unimaginable. When word gets out, a melee ensues, as opportunists will observe no bounds in attempts to gain control of the technology. With his small enterprise long on promise but short on capital, Chastain agonizes over the future of his discovery: can he bring to market the brave new methodology – or will it merely become a tool in the hands of ill-intentioned politicos?
About the author
In presenting this third book, Andrew Collins describes it as a “sprightly and apropos” handbook. The author tackles a rather mundane and laborious discipline – running – and makes its nuances and attractions fun to explore. One preview reader of the manuscript said this: “I had been an off-and-on runner for several years. When I got into the text, I could feel my running interests rekindling, and barely two hours later I had donned my running shoes and was outside again, getting it on. Great!” Andrew Collins also has in print two prior fiction novels, and he used that experience in crafting this first “how-to” book with flair and in a manner partakers will appreciate and enjoy. Also an accomplished songwriter, Collins currently lives in the Carolinas, flip-flopping between Durham and Myrtle Beach. Additionally, he enjoys time each winter in Fort Lauderdale, writing and running. If and when you are out on a run in any of the above locations, and you spot a slender male, running in knee sleeves, and offering an unusual salute, that would be Andrew Collins.