Deadly Protocol by Roger Corke

An Overview Media Review

Dr Ronnie Ackerman wakes up in bed alone.  Her boss, Nobel Prize-winner Professor Hasely Stone, and the man she got drunk with the night before, is downstairs in the sauna, brutally murdered. 

Who did this, and why?  

Stone had been working with total dedication on the ultimate cure for all cancers.  Was he killed because he failed, or because he succeeded?

Ronnie panics, clears the house of all traces of her overnight stay, and then sets out on a mission to find out.

My Review: 

This new-to-me author wrote an amazing book, it's a solid debut! I loved the attention to detail and the way Ronnie worked to solve this crime. Just think, a cure for cancer, where all would that lead? Then it's here, in this story. The pace doesn't slow down and it has so many good twists and clues. Ronnie's quest to find out who killed the man in her sauna and why takes us on an amazing journey that will not soon be forgotten. I appreciate the work the author put into this story and the winding road he gave us with Ronnie that invokes deep thinking in this reader. 

5 Stars 

TV journalist Roger Corke has spent more years than he cares to remember traveling to all parts of the world, making investigative documentaries for series like the BBC's Panorama, Channel 4's Dispatches , and ITV's World In Action and Tonight. It was whilst he was on a filming trip to America that he came up with the plot of Deadly Protocol.

 

"I was talking to a scientist working there who told me that they had made great strides in cancer research over the past few years." says Roger. "I asked him whether that meant a cure for cancer might come soon. His answered floored me. He said 'they may have found a cure for cancer but an lot of people would have a lot to lose if it ever saw the light of day'. Straight away, the plot for a thriller jumped out at me."