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The Lucifer Connection
Jack Barnstone is an outside-the-box, motorcycle-riding physician who, finding himself in two kinds of trouble, leaves Texas to start a solo practice near Chinatown in San Francisco. When a patient walks in his office with an undiagnosed mortal illness Barnstone's life changes forever. Finding himself in deeper trouble than ever he must work his way through a malpractice suit, the mistrust of his colleagues and the suspicions of the San Francisco police in order to vindicate himself. Since he has arrived in San Francisco just at the start of the Summer of Love to pursue his quest he has to learn the inner workings of Hippie culture, the sinister workings of the Satanic Church while he is dodging the unpredictable actions of the San Francisco Police. With help from his new Hippie girlfriend and an old flagrantly gay East Indian assistant coroner he discovers why the case was so difficult to solve, confronts the perpetrator and stumbles upon a well-hidden and sinister web of criminal activity.
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The Lucifer Connection
Summer Of Love. San Francisco. A murder so ingenious it looked like an unfortunate outcome of the common flu. That’s how Jack Barnstone, an unsuspecting doctor, gets caught in a web of danger that threatens to kill him off before he can solve the mystery.
Dr. Barnstone’s quest to find the answers that will save his life and the lives of his friends leads him into the heart of Hippie culture, the evil doings of a Satanic church and the untrustworthy behaviors of the San Francisco Police as his life spins out of control and things are getting much, much worse. . .
The Closed Ring
He’s at it again. Dr. Jack Barnstone thought he was done with sleuthing after clearing his name of malpractice and murder, but no. . . Now, to help a friend, he sets out to solve another murder by identifying a never-seen-before murder weapon and corralling the perpetrator, part of a drug-pushing crime syndicate known as the Closed Ring. To get the job done he has to dodge the advances of a seductive widow with unclear intensions, accommodate the return of his Hippie Chick lover and her eccentric, mystical friend, work around the San Francisco police and the local political power structure, all the while maintaining sanity and clear purpose.Engaging characters. Intelligent mystery narrative. Add the colorful times during the aftermath of the San Francisco Summer of Love and you have the formula for an evergreen classic.