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FLASHBACK

●  Amazon top ten bestselling medical thriller

●  A starred review in Publishers Weekly

●  A selection of the Doubleday Book Club

●  On the Doubleday Book Club's Medical Thrillers Bestsellers list for over 2 years

●  Winner of the Honors Award for Fiction, 2006, by the Massachusetts Center for the Book

Massachusetts Center for the Book said about Flashback:
"This fast-paced, elaborately-plotted murder mystery, set in Massachusetts, delves compellingly into ethical and moral issues, weaving an elaborate web of intrigue around the processes by which the brain processes memory, and by which business interests intervene in the development of a drug to combat Alzheimers disease. With its timely topic, strong and believable characters, and captivating action, the plot twists and turns to a surprising conclusion, inviting readers to consider along the way the value not only of remembering but also of forgetting."

FLASHBACK

If you could relive your childhood, would you? What if you had no choice?

On a trip back to Cape Cod on the 30^TH anniversary of his mother’s drowning, Jack Koryan, a prep school teacher turned restaurant owner, is stung by a school of rare jellyfish whose toxins send him into a coma for several months. When he awakens, he finds that the jellyfish toxin has left him with extraordinary memory. But he is also haunted by dreams and flash-memories--some of pleasant childhood vignettes, others of dark violence that leave him quaking in horror.

Jack wonders if he’s losing his mind, but that fear is dispelled by Rene Ballard, a pharmacologist who is testing those same toxins on Alzheimer’s victims with extraordinarily successful results that could lead to a breakthrough cure—though some patients have also committed acts of inexplicable violence.

Together Jack and Rene explore a scientific mystery to help explain what is happening to Jack at the same time uncovering a sinister pattern of lies, deceit and greed that has left behind a trail of bodies. And several elderly patients who are stuck in a past that they cannot emerge from—or don’t want to.  

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