“Bradlee Frazer’s novel The Cure features vivid details and sharp writing to move the plot forward. The characters are engaging and believable, and the premise is compelling. The central idea of focusing on a protagonist who is the cure for a worldwide pandemic instead of on the pandemic itself separates The Cure from the other “bug books.” This is a gripping legal/medical thriller.”
“If Stephen King and Michael Crichton had written Double Indemnity, it would have been The Cure. Health nut Jason Kramer’s life ends when, between jobs and insurance plans, he is diagnosed with a fatal disease — Triptovirus L — that has killed a million other Americans in an epidemic that has the nation in an uproar, and for which there is no known cure. To add insult to injury, his wife leaves him.
Jason’s disease goes into sudden and unexpected “remission,” which looks like good news, though it turns him into a human guinea pig in a remote Arizona facility. But things really get bad for Jason when it turns out that his blood — transfused in the right doses — can cure other people suffering from the disease. Suddenly he becomes the MacGuffin in a deadly contest among many relentless schemers, including his wife and her lover, ruthless former CDC agents, and, worst of all, the billionaire pharmaceuticals mogul whose vast profits Jason’s natural healing gift threatens.
Frazer’s novel is exciting and well-paced. His characters crackle with distinctive personality and his plotting is satisfyingly complex. This is a great debut, and makes me hope he has another in the works.”
Bradlee Frazer is an author, speaker, blogger and Boise, Idaho native who loves the blues, Ray Bradbury short stories and his wife, daughter and dogs. He is also the lawyer who successfully registered the color blue as a trademark for the iconic artificial turf in Boise State University’s football stadium.
Bradlee’s nonfiction has been published in national legal treatises on matters of Internet and intellectual property law, and he is a frequent speaker on those topics. His works of fiction include the short story “Occam’s Razor,” which was published in an online literary journal, and he has co-authored two screenplays, Dangerous Imagination and Spirit of the Lake. He has written scripts for sketch comedy, radio productions and short films, and in college Bradlee was a film critic who wrote and hosted a weekly half-hour television program called Premiere!. The Cure is his first novel.
