The Deception: A Novel

By Barry Reed

From Barry Reed, New York Times best-selling author of The Choice, The Indictment, and The Verdict, comes a suspenseful psychological thriller and courtroom drama involving medical malpractice and sexual intrigue.

At seventeen, Donna DiTullio was a highly ranked tennis player with world-class potential. At twenty-one, she's hospitalized as a suicidal manic-depressive. But under the care of Dr. Robert Sexton and with the help of some experimental medication, Donna is ready to be discharged. Then, unexpectedly, she leaps from a fifth-floor balustrade, leaving herself paralyzed and near death.

Attorney Dan Sheridan is called in to sue the hospital and its owner, the Archdiocese of Boston. Sheridan presses his investigation against the powerful interests of the Church and the medical establishment, an investigation and subsequent trial that test all of his skill as a lawyer and lead to an ethical dilemma that will nearly cost him his life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Apr 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9780307816337

Barry Reed

B.G. Reed served in the Navy, Coast Guard, and Air Force for a total of twenty years before he retired as a Non-Commissioned Officer. He has been a 911 Paramedic for over a decade. He grew up in Georgia and resides in Heard County, Georgia.

Reviews for The Deception

[snotbottom-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Good update to the series he started years ago. Always been an Alcorn fan, both of his fiction and non-fiction.

[reeread · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Definitely the best of the series in terms of Ollie Chandler solving a mystery and grappling with personal issues and the meaning of life. This time he is front and centre. The mystery and the solving of it are core to the story and the God/Heaven/suffering/sin issues are tucked in around it, rather than loaded down with specific themes (racial discrimination, gangs, personal ambition vs God's will, abortion, homosexuality) as in previous books. I'm glad Ollie really gets a go this time. Although he is going through lots of personal struggles, he wants to get the job done. Clarence and Jake are his sounding boards and they have opportunity to reflect Jesus to him. The biggest catch is that the clues are mounting up against him and point to him as the murderer....and he isn't sure of himself.

[kpw_6 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Very good mystery; occasionally preachy