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Otherworld Publications LLC
July 2010
On Sale: July 1, 2010
266 pages
ISBN: 0982649444
EAN: 9780982649442
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Eight-year-old Jennifer Haller's brain tumor is killing her.
A timely CT scan would likely have saved her, and a new
surgery offers hope for a cure, but Julie Haller is crushed
when their insurance company refuses to pay for her
daughter's operation. Shortly after Jennifer's diagnosis,
Marine Captain Ed Haller loses his leg to a roadside bomb in
Iraq. He comes home to rehabilitate while Jennifer wages her
own losing battle with cancer and its treatment. Jennifer's
death leads the family to Fort Worth lawyer Grant Mercer,
whom they hire to sue Jennifer's neurologist. As Mercer
works the case, Julie Haller learns the results of recent
tort reform efforts, including a $250,000 limit in medical
malpractice cases. She and her husband realize that a
quarter-million dollar price tag on a beloved eight-year-old
girl is simply inconceivable. They have no interest in the
money, focusing instead on their responsibility to honor
their daughter by seeking justice for her death. The murders
of a lobbyist in Austin, a state senator on a remote country
road, and an insurance executive in New York seem unrelated
until Jennifer's doctor is kidnapped. Mercer makes the
disturbing connection between the victims and his case, and
discovers how far some people will go when the usual avenues
of justice are too sharply curtailed.
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