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BRISTLECONE MOUNTAIN
Keith M. McDonald
Panic seizes the ambitious young attorney, Mark Edwards when he learns of his mother, Clara's, cancer. It is the type that killed his father and he sees no hope for her survival. All he sees in her future is the suffering his father underwent in chemotherapy. His panic turns to fury when he learns that Clara's oncologist is the hated Dr. Tom Whitby, the man he holds responsible for his father's suffering. Clara refuses to change doctors so Mark turns for advice to his old law professor, Winston Hirsch, an activist in the euthanasia movement. Hirsch leads Mark into the inner workings of the secret Amanita Society. Mark is overawed by its elite intellectual members and becomes convinced that they have the answer to his mother's suffering. His efforts to act on their advice result in open conflict with Dr. Whitby. The conflict escalates into violence which culminates on the blizzard-wracked slopes of Bristlecone Mountain.
The novel addresses both sides of the euthanasia debate, an issue which is rapidly coming to the fore in our society, much as did abortion a couple of generations ago.
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