My Review and Thoughts:
This is a great medical mystery thriller that held my
attention and never wavered in the mysterious reality of the subject. Never a
boring moment, always a constant character builder and situation displayed that
allowed a great read.
I felt that this book maintained a steady ordeal every
single chapter in the unfolding reality. The chapters are short, which I love
because you can read one, when you only have 5 to 10 minutes to spare. Loved
the character development throughout the whole book. Every chapter you would
learn something new about the characters.
Lovers of Robin Cook’s medical mystery's and Michael
Crichton's imagination I think will take to this book.
Across America pregnant women are confused. Soon they
collapse. There legs twitch. Their eyes run back and forth, soon they are in a
coma. Why is certain pregnant woman affected and not all? Why is only America
hit with this medical mystery? Soon the deaths pile up. More and more women across
the country are affected. A national crisis. One Doctor named Sinclair who has
a god complex, and thinks he is more important than anyone else, believes he
has the answer. Soon Dr. Jack Wyatt, a leading doctor is called in to help.
Jack your main character is on a cat and mouse game with a mysterious medical
killer. Jack must find out what is causing this strange ordeal before Sinclair
is given the approval to treat the women with a medication that has its major
side effects, that could lead to long term suffering and even death.
Author Mason Lucas created a great medical thriller that
thoroughly entertained me. I really loved his character development throughout
the story, and the overall doom of this medical mystery. The race to find the
cure gave off a real vibe as you read along. Lucas has away with grabbing you
and placing you there in the Hospital next to the patients. He allows you to
like Jack. Jack becomes your friend, your personal Doctor as the story unfolds.
I for one would love a doctor like Jack to help me, and that is how strong the
character development is. Lucas Mason M.D. is a pen name. The real name of the
author is Gary Birkin, and in real life, he is a real life Doctor. A pediatric
surgeon. This is his first novel under the pen name Lucas Mason M.D. He has
written five other novels under his real name, Gary Birken.
One thing I hope that happens under his Pen name of Lucas
Mason M.D. is to return to the characters in Error in Diagnosis. I really like
the character of Jack. I think he would be a solid character for a series of
novels.
Again, I must mention this is a solid medical mystery with a
total learning fascination throughout the research, and medical talk mentioned
in the book. What I really love is that Lucas Mason does not over do the
medical mumbo jumbo. Sometimes a problem, a lot of doctor writers, or science
writers do, is confuse the hell out of the readers with too much confusing
information. Thankfully this book does not do that, and that is another reason
I highly recommend this book.
My Rating: 4 out of 5