Prescription For Death : 9780595276264 : 08 May 2003 : "Prescription For Death"A gang of criminals devise a scheme to defraud insurance companies by faking heart attacks. Their plot includes a method of altering cardiograms, a relatively new diagnostic tool in 1931, the setting of this story.Stuart Downing, a young physician, suspects the scheme, but digging out the evidence proves a deadly pursuit. Downing is up against a devious lawyer, unscrupulous doctors, crooked insurance agents and killers.Downing must match his ingenuity against theirs with an unimaginable threat lurking at his every move._____________________________________Praise for the novels of Barry Friedman"Dead End"" supplies his readers with plenty of tension right to the end." - "Inscriptions Magazine"" " Lively police procedural." - "San Diego Union-Tribune"" " Fantastic story." - "Huntress Book Reviews""Assignment: Bosnia"" Exceptionally well-written thriller." - Shirley Allen, author of "Roxanna Britton"" This thri