Former Navy SEAL Jake Palmer and clinical research auditor Fiona Collins reluctantly team up following the deaths of a physician researcher and his nurse in a suspicious automobile crash in southwest England. They soon find themselves immersed in a series of events swirling around the development of a drug that raises libido in women. When Collins is abducted, Jake must rescue her and find those responsible. At stake are the lives of thousands of future patients and the fulfillment of his life’s deepest wish.
Jake Palmer, an independent healthcare investigator, is searching for something to fill the emptiness he's felt since leaving the U.S. Navy SEALs 10 years earlier. Neither his work as a lawyer nor his endless string of short-term relationships fill the void. When a former colleague at B&A Pharmaceuticals asks Palmer to investigate the deaths of physician researcher Ian Smythe and his nurse in southwest England - killed in a horrific car crash - he reluctantly accepts the assignment.
He and clinical research auditor Fiona Collins become entangled in a web of murder, deceit and ambition centered on a drug that treats hypoactive sexual desire disorder in women that could make billions for the company. Their deepening investigation puts their lives in danger. After Collins is abducted from her home, Palmer must confront his demons and risk his life to rescue her and bring those responsible to justice, even if it means killing them. If he fails, thousands of patients' lives will be at risk, and he will lose the one thing for which he's been searching.
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DR. IAN SMYTHE looked at his watch, half past six. He and his research nurse, Rupinder Patel, were the last to leave the Cornwall Women’s Clinic in southwest England. They waited until their coworkers left to begin their task. Ian was frightened, but determined to see this through. He pulled the hood of his green Barbour coat over his head and lifted the box of files from the table beside the rear door of the clinic. Ian hurried to his dark blue BMW 525i, rain pelting him in the face, threw the box in the trunk beside the others, got into his car and waited.
That afternoon he received a call from an unidentified man with a two pack-a-day voice. The man warned him that if he followed through on his plan, there would be severe consequences, not just for him, but his nurse, too. Before Ian could respond, the man hung up.
He watched Rupinder lock the clinic door and dash to her car. After a couple of minutes, she pounded her fists on the steering wheel. He drove to the parking space alongside her, lowered his window and shouted. “What’s wrong?”
Rupinder opened her door enough to be heard. “It won’t start. Can you take me home?”
“Of course.”
Rupinder ran to Ian’s car and got in. “I live between the Land’s End Aerodrome and St. Just.”
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