Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Book 7
$18.95
Paperback, 6″ x 9″
281 pages
ISBN 978-1-63381-402-8
by Geoffrey M. Cooper
Additional books in the series
Forever: A Medical Thriller (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Book 2), Bad Medicine: A Medical Thriller (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Book 3), Ill Intent: A Medical Thriller (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Book 4), and Perilous Obsession: A Medical Thriller (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Book 5), The Fifth Student (Brad Parker and Karen Richmond Book 6)
Near the end of World War II, a German U-boat deposited two Nazi saboteurs on the coast of Maine. History tells us they were quickly captured. But what if there was a third man? A top-secret agent with a long-term mission known only to a select few in the Nazi high command. Men who anticipated the ways that genetic engineering could someday be used to help launch a Fourth Reich.
The agent collaborates with a geneticist and the Ku Klux Klan to weaponize the emerging science of DNA research, first to develop lethal bacteria and ultimately to engineer modifications of the human genome. Until years later, an accidental discovery at the U-boat’s landing site provides a glimpse of his mission, drawing Professor Brad Parker and Maine State Police Lieutenant Karen Richmond into a struggle to stop the creation of a new class of neo-Nazi warriors.
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Falling between Robin Cook’s medical thrillers and Robert Parker’s Spenser potboilers isn’t a bad place to live—and this one hits a sweet spot.
—BlueInk Review
A fun, fast-paced medical mystery that adeptly balances scientific intrigue and human drama.
—IndieReader
The Third Man continues Geoffrey M. Cooper’s reputation for producing flawless, thoroughly engrossing medical thrillers. There are many mirrors between this book’s thriller and suspense action and real-world headlines today. Perhaps that’s what makes it especially intriguing and frightening and hard to put down.
—Diane Donovan, Midwest Book Review
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Geoffrey M. Cooper is an award-winning author of medical thrillers and a 2023 Maine Literary Award Finalist in Crime Fiction. His experience as a former cancer researcher and scientific administrator, having held positions at Harvard Medical School and Boston University as professor, department chair, and associate dean, now provides extensive background for his novels. He lives in Ogunquit, Maine.