Serious Side Effects

About the Book

Mark Dolan is reinventing himself—again. He was a major-league baseball pitcher, a career cut short by an arm injury, and then he became a freelance detective, a career often marked by bloodshed and broken bones. Now, he hopes to take up the quiet life of a suburban husband and father. His plans explode when his wife contracts a rare virus while working overseas. She is treated with a new drug, marketed by a major pharmaceutical company, and she quickly plunges into a deep coma. While she clings to life, Dolan embarks on a quest to find out more about the drug she took and the people who produced it. The journey takes him from New York to Washington to a ramshackle testing center in Miami—and then ever deeper into the seamy underside of the US drug industry. The stakes get higher when a relentless killer, hired by the drug companies, arrives to put an end to Dolan’s search. He and the killer stalk each other from city to city, heading for a final showdown that can only end with one of them dead.

About the Author

Kenneth Labich has worked as a staff writer and editor for various magazines, including Newsweek and Fortune. He is the author of four previous novels—Angry Pigs, Fishing Mishaps (2008), Precious (2009), Moisture Management (2011), and Moving the Meat (2014).