This is one of the early Harlan Coben novels and he makes excuses for it in his introduction. This is a little unfair as it is quite readable if not as good as his Myron Bolitar novels etc. I read it in three days so that is a pretty good sign that it is OK. However, having written that it is really only a novel for the people (like me) who want to read all of Halan Coben's novels.
The book is set in the medical world and the thirst for research dollars and the conflicts that exist there. The characters are likeable and fairly real. The plot is reasonably good and the pages for me kept turning relatively quickly.
The fun part of the novel for me was that as it was written in the early 1990's the perception of AIDs was really quite strange looking at it now from 20 years later. The gay tag has definitely gone from this subject. Also the lack of mobile phones and the use of pagers for me was a fairly short lived era.
6/10 for me.
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