Positive Match - Tapa dura

Chosen to oversee the expansion of a high-profile health-care company, New York banker Maggie Sepulveda becomes a pawn in a deadly plan engineered by a billionaire investor to prey on the young and able.

elling tradition of Michael Crichton and Robin Cook comes a pulse-pounding novel of medical terror and high-tech suspense as terrifying as it is plausible.

Caduceus 21 is the future of health care.  But few people know the company's balance sheet is fueled by a hidden trade in human organs.  And only one person suspects where those human organs are coming from.

Dr. Nguyen-Anh Dupree has heard the rumors of human vultures preying on the Third World.  From the clinic he runs in a rural Mexican village, he has tried to persuade a local youth that what awaits on the other side of the border might be far worse than capture by the border patrol.  But even when the boy disappears crossing into Texas, Dupree cannot prove his dark suspicions.

New York investment banker Maggie Sepulveda is an up-and-coming junior partner at Marx Dillon & Neil.  She is about to land the deal of her career, financing the expansion of Cadu