FATAL

Big Coal meets Big Pharmaceuticals in Michael Palmer's latest medical nail-biter. Illegal toxic waste, a hideously disfiguring disease, paranoic dementia, and vaccines that may be responsible for the increase in childhood diseases such as autism, ADHD, and Asperger's syndrome all come under Palmer's relentless microscope. When Drs. Matt Rutledge and Nikki Solari connect with consumer advocate Ellen Kroft, their combined knowledge is the catalyst for explosive revelations. Michael Kramer's performance lends an appropriately sinister mien to some of the over-the-top villains and adds layers of evil to law officers with unlawful interests. His renderings of murderous, drug-dealing bikers and mountain men in West Virginia are inspired. S.J.H. (c) AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine [Published: FEB / MAR 03]