Praise for Elemental Danger "An intriguing blend of suspense and reality." -Frank Ruff, Virginia senator, 15th district "A tightly told tale that gives you a taste of a unique region with plenty of flavor and characters." - Dallas Weston, Editor, The News Progress It's a puzzling case when skeletal remains are discovered on Buggs Island Lake in Southside Virginia. The sand, sun, and weather have cleaned and bleached the skeleton to the quality of an anatomic teaching model. The bones, when later analyzed, emit concentrations of radiation. Dr. Obie Hardy, an on-call medical examiner from nearby Boydton, is summoned to the scene. But this is only the first in a series of unexplained bodies to emerge in this rural lakeside community under mysterious and suspicious circumstances. Hardy and seasoned Mecklenburg County Detective Bruce Duffer teams with Mark McClain, a curious local reporter with The News Progress, in order to get to the bottom of the deaths. Despite the distraction of a corrupt contractor, they discover a link to local mining operations and find themselves among dangerous elements. They must use their intuitions and perseverance to stop the ballooning threat of a major environmental disaster.
Obie Hardy, a medical student at the Medical College of Virginia, struggles to translate textbook training into live patient care. In the 1980s, this small town boy is challenged by Richmonds city life and the incessant competiveness of his classmates while seeking competency as a physician. One student succumbs to the stress as Obie finds strength in his girlfriend, Priscilla, and a few close classmates. His part time research project involving a controversial cancer drug questions his integrity and allienates Priscilla. As Obies life crumbles, he stumbles upon a pivotable lab discovery. Testimonial It has been a number of years since I read as exciting a book as this. The book is magnetizing and full of interesting history and a description of some of the events that took place at a historical Virginian teaching institution. The book is so thrilling that makes the reader, once he/she starts reading, unable to stop reading till the finish. The book is an impressive historical resume of MCV and a diary of some very important research as well as some other important events that took place in this edifice called MCV, The Medical College of Virginia. Making it A MUST READ BOOK. Ali Hossaini, Sr, Ph.D., Assitant Professor of Clinical Pathology, MCV
As Dr. Obie Hardy, family physician and part-time medical examiner, travels down a rural Virginia road, he thinks he is about to investigate another routine death. But as he pulls up next to a mobile home, he discovers there is nothing ordinary about the case at all. Mohammed and Anne Thacker are dead-the victims of a murder-suicide apparently fueled by drugs. Dr. Hardy moves from one death scene to another, and he and county deputies uncover links between the victims, eventually exposing a web of corruption that leads Detective Bruce Duffff er to target local cocaine dealer Skeeter Richards, who is quickly expanding his territory. Meanwhile, Dale Gregory, a local contractor, is struggling with his wife's adulterous, narcissistic lifestyle. On the verge of financial ruin, Dale has no idea that his wife is planning his murder. Even so, she seems surprised when his remains are identified in the ashes of a suspicious house fire. As Duffer and Dr. Hardy are propelled into a dangerous investigation with an outcome no one anticipates, the pair must rely on their instincts and a string of puzzling clues as they attempt to capture a killer before he strikes again.
As Dr. Obie Hardy, family physician and part-time medical examiner, travels down a rural Virginia road, he thinks he is about to investigate another routine death. But, as he pulls up next to a mobile home, he discovers there is nothing ordinary about the case at all. Mohammed and Anne Thacker are deadthe victims of a murder-suicide apparently fueled by drugs. Dr. Hardy moves from one death scene to another, and he and county deputies uncover links between the victims, eventually exposing a web of corruption that leads Detective Bruce Duffer to target local cocaine dealer Skeeter Richards, who is quickly expanding his territory. Meanwhile, Dale Gregory, a local contractor, is struggling with his wifes adulterous, narcissistic lifestyle. On the verge of financial ruin, Dale has no idea that his wife is planning his murder. Even so, she seems surprised when his remains are identified in the ashes of a suspicious house fire. As Duffer and Dr. Hardy are propelled into a dangerous investigation with an outcome no one anticipates, the pair must rely on their instincts and a string of puzzling clues as they attempt to capture a killer before he strikes again.
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