"The RX Factor" by J. Thomas Shaw.
Synopsis: Dr. Ryan Matthews is a broken man. Five
years after the death of his wife and children and the collapse of his
career in medical research, Ryan is living alone in the Bahamas. One
night, an attractive young woman named Jordan Carver catches his eye.
Jordan is vacationing with her aunt and uncle aboard their luxury yacht
anchored in Elizabeth Harbor. There is instant chemistry between the
two, and, following a long night of merriment, Ryan offers to pilot the
dinghy that will haul Jordan back to her aunt and uncles yacht. As they
are trolling towards the vessel, the luxury liner is destroyed in a
violent explosion, killing her aunt and uncle instantly. As Jordan
collapses in grief, Ryan can sense that his life's course has once again
been forever altered.
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When the main character, Ryan, realizes his wife has cancer, he personally gets her in a clinical trial for a cancer drug that he has created himself. As the family struggled with this diagnosis and waited to hear the results, the story started throwing it's blanket of deception over me. The results from the test say his wife, Cindy, is not cured at all and no progress was made in the clinical trial. As a family they wanted to spend as much time left that Cindy has and began the journey to the Bahamas. A main plot of the story begins when the plane crashes and his entire family is gone in a blink of an eye. Dr. Ryan literally began to swallow his grief and resentment in alcohol all day long in the Bahamas. At this time a shining star walked into his life, Jordan. They begin to talk and realize she is a researcher as well, which starts to pull him out of his grief stricken life. Although he does not really believe she will be successful in bypassing the FDA, he admires her courage. As these two travel though movie style action sequences, we are left with many questions. The author, Mr. Shaw, completely summed up one of the main questions people have into an action packed novel : "Why can't Cancer be cured?"
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John Thomas Shaw was born in Quincy, IL, attended college at Illinois
State University in Normal, IL and relocated to Chicago after his
graduation. Following a successful career with a national mortgage
company, he co-founded Guaranteed Rate, Inc. which is one of the fastest
growing independent mortgage banks in the United States. The author now
lives in the San Diego area with his wife and two children. Prior to
his relocation to California, Mr. Shaw lived six years in Durham, NC
followed by two years living in the families rustic log cabin in
Cotopaxi, Colorado and has traveled extensively throughout the Bahamas’,
Caribbean and Mexico. The scenes throughout The RX Factor take place in
the various locations that the author has lived or experienced in his
travels. Throughout the process of writing The RX Factor, the author
consulted with his good friend, Johnny Powers Ph.D.
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