Fatal Focus

About the Book

Can medical lasers cause cancer? Dr. Jackson Baer, a retired ophthalmologist, has completed a research study showing how the excimer laser, used for photorefractive eye surgery, triggers cellular mutations which lead to cancer. The publication of this study promises to be a tremendous blow to the highly profitable laser eye surgery industry. Baer suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances, but only after telling his young protégé, Dr. Terry Blake about his study. Blake enlists pathologist and former girlfriend Christine Dion and his friend and attorney Russell Sampson to find out what really happened to Baer, and also to locate the now missing laser study. Lurking in the shadows is industrial spy and assassin Sherman Stiles. He’s been assigned the job of suppressing Dr. Baer’s study by any means possible. And Stiles isn’t the only one gunning for Blake. Young and talented attorney Bryant McShay launches a legal barrage against the doctor designed to ruin Blake financially and destroy his medical career. Can Blake recover the study? And, if he does, can he survive long enough to see that the truth is exposed? People must learn the costly price they’ve paid for their fatal focus.

About the Author

Jonathan Maxx lives with his children on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in Southern California. There, after considering the persuasive arguments of a physician friend, he decided to write his first novel, Fatal Focus. Maxx brings to the task his several years experience as an attorney, and numerous credits as a published writer of short stories. He also brings his deep respect for the medical profession. Although not a medical doctor, Maxx sees great similarities between the practice of law and the practice of medicine, and has drawn upon his diverse professional life in depicting the characters in his book. His own heros and villains are all very real. Only his stories are fiction