Jeffrey Meyer had a killing on his mind. It meant nothing to him that
his towering Twenty-first Century world was going mad. He shouldered
aside the rising tide of narcotics-mania, the gambling fever, the
insatiable lust for the irrational. Jeff had his own all-consuming
obsession--Paul Conroe must die!
After a five-year frenzied chase, Jeff had his victim cornered; he'd
driven him into the last hideaway of the world's most desperate
men--the sealed vaults of the human-vivisectionists. And Jeff knew
that to reach his final horrible objective, he must offer himself also
as a guinea pig for the secret experiments of the world's most feared
physicians!
Alan E. Nourse's new novel A MAN OBSESSED has the impact of Orwell's
_1984_ and the imaginative vigor of Huxley's _Brave New World_.
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About the author:
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, and currently studying for his doctorate in
medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Alan E. Nourse has managed
in between to make himself a high rating as a science-fiction author.
His stories have appeared in every leading fantasy magazine and many
anthologies. A MAN OBSESSED, his latest work, will be his third novel
to see book publication. Concerning it, he says;
"The idea was drawn from my experience in minor grade medical
guinea-pigging which I as a medical student have done from time to
time. The Hoffman Medical Center, originally conceived as a likely
development in the future of medical treatment and research, is not
modeled on any existing organization. Medical mercenary work does,
however, exist at the present time for testing new drugs, studying
physiological effects, and in some cases testing rather dangerous
procedures. Cash is paid for participation, and certain groups of
experiments have become very popular among medical students as a
source of very easy, if slightly risky, income."