Declan Finn
Jul 15, 2026
The Urban Fantasy Medical Thriller, now with more gunfire.
Before our story begins, Private Investigator Ben Lockwood was an Army Ranger, held POW in Afghanistan for seven months, being tortured in new and creative ways that I wonder if the cave dwellers were smart enough to ever actually use. Now that he’s back stateside, he works a desk job at the PI firm owned by his mother’s girlfriend. It’s a nice boring desk job. His latest case is a nice boring investigation into possible pharmaceutical espionage. So why does page one see Ben being kidnapped and tortured for information on the case? Good question. Ben’s client is Alex Jarrett, a CEO of Big Pharma that specializes in nanotechnology medications and treatments. But, he will not deal with the supernatural, so vampires and werewolves are just plain out of luck. This includes his nearest competitor, a werewolf married to a vampire, who may be dying—for good. Yes, we have science fiction medical technology, werewolves and vampires. For the record, no, I haven’t spoiled anything. This doesn’t even get us to page 50 of a nearly 300 page novel. This boils down to being an urban fantasy medical thriller, now with more gunfire. And kidnappings. And torture. Seriously, this feels like if Jim Butcher had a Harry Dresden book set in a hospital, yet the building was still standing when it was all over, and not on fire. It is strange at how much of this book is character driven. It’s hard to tell given how much is going on. I’m not even certain that this book even thought about slowing down at any point. But don’t worry, if it did, like a Flash Gordon serial, something else happens.
