Ridley Pearson’s 1993 shocker, the second of his Lou
Boldt outings, makes grim reading.
Teaming up with sergeant Boldt, she begins a race
against time to find the insane butcher who was set on harvesting a human heart
for transplant surgery. The victim is Daphne’s friend, Sharon. The insane Angel
Maker is Elden Tegg, a veterinary surgeon and he is out to make this one last
harvest, to rake in the big money so he can retire in South America.
An exciting un-put-downable detailed and well
researched thriller with believable characters.Pearson has written over two dozen thrillers and has been on the NYT best sellers list more than once, yet for some reason he’s never become ‘big’, which is a shame, as he delivers edge-of-seat visceral books.
The subject of organ harvesting wasn’t even new in
1993. What Cops Know by Connie Fletcher (1990) ends with ‘Ten, twenty years
from now… the big thing that organized crime will get into will be the selling
of body parts. They’re already doing it in some countries – taking these kids,
buying babies, killing them, and selling their organs for transplants… They’ll
take the kids, whatever ages they want, and just grow them like cattle. And
when somebody needs an organ or a group of organs, from a three-year-old, an
eight-year-old, a female, whatever… Organ farming is expected to be the next
wave after drugs. Doesn’t that scare you?’
The main plot in my novella Silenced in Darkness
(1995) is organ harvesting.
Today, the mission statement for the newly formed National Crime Agency of the UK is to combat international organized crime, including illegal organ harvesting…
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