Dead End Deal by Allen Wyler is a medical thriller. The author is a retired neurosurgeon, who then retired from his second job as a medical director for a start-up med tech, before taking up writing on a full-time basis. Since 2005, he’s written 11 novels, and this book is a re-release of a book he originally published in 2013.
This is a story about the creation of a new technology for treating dementia, but the protagonist, Jon Ritter, is not only battling completing work in time for the NIH (National Institute of Health) in order to get approval to test his technique on humans, but he’s also battling his own board of directors, and others who are willing to kill in order to gain control of this new process.
While I thought the book had a great fundamental idea or the sort I could expect from Robin Cook, it just did not happen for me. I thought there was too little plot and too much chase. As the scene of the drama moved to Seoul, South Korean, Ritter had a love story as another subplot that kept getting interrupted by the murders happening around him. At any rate, I thought the character development was lacking and I did feel any real attachment for Ritter. The book does not get my recommendation.
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