Review: Hard to put this thriller down - really entertaining!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
Megan’s Cure is Robert Lowe’s latest Enzo Lee thriller. I read the first two and enjoyed them both – this one is even better.When 10-year old Megan Kim disappears, the police assume that she was kidnapped. However, it becomes a puzzle quickly when they talk with her parents, who are evasive but admit that Megan called them and that she’s safe and should be back home in a few days. However, they won’t tell the police where she is or who she is with, only that they are obviously unconcerned with the situation.Meanwhile, Enzo Lee is working as a reporter, visiting his grandmother who is very ill with leukemia. He learns that there were trials done with a medication that held great promise for the treatment of leukemia and other cancers, but it suddenly seemed to disappear. The drug and the chemist who created it are missing – and Lee believes that this drug may be the only hope for his grandmother. Lee attempts to contact the chemist, and eventually gets involved in a conspiracy that reaches to the highest levels of the pharmaceutical industry.It soon becomes apparent that lives are at stake. What is Megan’s role in this conspiracy? Why will Big Pharma do whatever it takes to stop this drug from being approved? And who will be alive at the end?Lowe does an excellent job developing the characters in this story. You find yourself really caring about what happens. You’ll love Megan! And the suspense and action never lets up – in fact, this is a hard book to put down. I was wondering how it was all going to work itself out, thinking that the author might have written himself into a corner – but no, this book was plotted very well and kept my attention throughout. Looking forward to reading the next Enzo Lee book - recommended!