Vacant Eyes

Description for VACANT EYES by Sidney Spies:

THE INCURABLE COME TO COLLIER HOSPITAL TO DIE IN PEACE.

The straight path of Dr. Karen Formaker, an ambitious young endocrinologist, is forever bent when tragedy calls her to the emergency room.  There, her own sister, a prominent physician, lies flat-line and beyond all hope of recovery.

THE DOCTORS COME TO LEARN.

Now something has turned her sister's husband, chief of medicine at Collier, into a ghost of his former self.  Something more powerful than grief is affecting his mind...something more sinister than drugs.

SOMEONE CAME TO KILL.

With nowhere else to turn, Karen seeks the help of her brilliant mentor, the Nobel Laureate Arnold Berkholt.  Their work on a vital brain hormone may help roll back the ravages of Alzheimer's disease.  But somewhere in the hospital, a renegade is crossing the border of medical ethics---sentencing innocent victims to a living death of irreversible dementia.  And as the hideous toll mounts it's up to Karen alone to stop the terror that ends with...VACANT EYES