Publisher's Synopsis
How can one decision change your life forever? A sinister secret forces Vincent, a seminary student, into making a choice he would never consider. Killing people to protect his own family. He is carefully trained to commit murders by using medieval techniques of assassination, techniques that are designed to go unnoticed and undetectable. The perfect murder. This medical murder thriller entwines a calculated killing spree that spreads from Italy to the shores of Florida and to the intensive care unit in a major heart center. Vincent realizes that he, too, is expendable when someone's bitter revenge causes the hunter to now become the hunted. His final contract involves killing the people ahead of his employer on the heart transplant list. Steele Russell, heart surgeon, risks his life getting a new heart for transplantation but uncovers a murderous conspiracy inside his own intensive care unit. How can a man waiting in an intensive care unit for a lifesaving heart transplant die from a massive lethal snake poisoning? A snake that is one of the most poisonous in the world but is only found in Australia? How can a young man in the Bahamas be specially selected as the donor for a lifesaving heart transplant in Florida, when his only problem is that he is very healthy and his heart is a perfect match for an ill man awaiting heart transplant. Steele struggles between his responsibility as a surgeon or avenging his friend's death, but someone else enacts revenge. Working with his team of medical detectives and computer geniuses, Steele reveals the complex dark intrigue and connivery of a mafia hit man and his employers. But is it too late; what can Steele do about sanctioning justice? Ultimately, Vincent, the seminary student and contract killer, successfully assassinates the patients ahead of his client, allowing his client to get his lifesaving heart transplant. He escapes Florida and travels around the world finally ending up in Bonaire. He wants out of this terrible life he has created and wants to re-discover his love of his life to restart a new life. Unfortunately, he ends up becoming the unwittingly hunted prey when he is trapped in the snares of his own poison. As a heart surgeon, Dr. Carlson in Bitter Revenge gives you a realistic look into the complex world of heart surgery and heart transplantation as well as the daily life and death experiences in the intensive care unit. He weaves his own medical experiences into the challenges encountered by Dr. Steele Russell.
