Lethal Mercy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1433506963 ISBN 13: 9781433506963

Publisher: Crossway Books, 2009

When pregnant Sarah Hampton dies suddenly at an alternativecancer treatment facility, an enraged community demands to knowwhether her physician-husband assisted her death. Suffering fromtraumatic amnesia, Jake Hampton would like to know too. He stronglyopposes assisted suicide, and yet his wife was suffering suchagony-is it possible he helped her die?

After barely avoiding a murder trial, and hoping to regain hismemory and unravel the questions he's not sure he wants answered,Jake joins a medical practice in his former hometown. Once there,he not only continues to encounter public suspicion, but receivessubtle and threatening clues from an unidentified stalker. Are hiswife's death and the stalker's appearance mere coincidence? Or issomeone trying to destroy him completely?

In this medical thriller, practicing surgeon and accomplishednovelist Harry Kraus uses complex characters, fascinating medicaldetails, and depictions of spiritual warfare to keep readersriveted. This edition of Lethal Mercy features a new coverdesign and is the follow-up to Kraus's Fated Genes andStainless Steal Hearts.

About the Author:

HARRY KRAUS, MD, is a practicing surgeon and a missionary with Africa Inland Mission, currently on home assignment. He is the author of two nonfiction books, Breathing Grace and The Cure, and eleven novels. Kraus earned his MD degree from the Medical College of Virginia, completed his surgical internship and residency at the University of Kentucky, and formerly practiced in Virginia and Kenya. Visit his website at www.harrykraus.com for more information.