Call Me Liz
Darrell Pruett

THE BOOK

A young Ivy League research Ph.D. develops an antibody that shows promise against the AIDS virus. The Food and Drug Administration refuses to allow Dr. Elizabeth Bach to test her antibody on human patients without further extensive, time-consuming in-vitro testing. In desperation she uses it on a friend who is dying from the virus.

Even Dr. Bach is amazed to find that in relatively short order, her friend/patient recovers completely. She is elated, but ponders what she should do now. Because she had acted against FDA directives, she couldn't publicize the discovery without jeopardizing her new tentative position within the sometimes hostile, male-dominated scientific community.

When her friend/patient is found dead in a D.C car crash, her sorrow turns to fear: a lab fire destroys her main supply of the antibody, and her apartment is ransacked. She frantically concludes that someone is out to kill her to obtain the very last container of the antibody that she is carrying in her purse.

Dr. Bach seeks the help of FBI Deputy Director Richard Stone, the brother of the deceased test patient.

DEDICATION

for Dr. Robin Elizabeth Bachelder
and Nicholas

"again and again and again"

THE AUTHOR

Darrell Pruett developed an affinity for writing under the aegis of his high school journalism teacher in his home state of Indiana. Since he always preferred to do things the hard way, he allowed his writing endeavors to take a back seat, first to a four year stint in the U.S. Air Force. Then came a business career, the pursuit of an education (obtaining two business degrees including an MBA in business, all obtained in evening school), and a busy family life. Three years ago, Darrell's writing urges had finally re-emerged. Once started, he soon created the FBI mystery/thriller titled The Power of the Shadow, Denlinger's, 2002, (again the hard way, at nights and over weekends). This was his second novel, a medical mystery, Call Me Liz, dedicated to the trials and tribulations his daughter incurred during her PhD AIDS research work at Harvard University. Pruett's third novel, The Pact at Star's Crossing, Denlinger's, 2000, germinated from Darrell's high school days in small-town southern Indiana.

Pruett and his wife Patricia presently reside in a suburb of Springfield, in western Massachusetts. His daughter Robin and her family live in a near by Boston community. The author is pictured with his grandson, Nicholas.

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