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    Bloody Profits
    Bloody Profits
    Bloody Profits
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    Bloody Profits

    By Thom Whalen

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    Financial News: Merriweather Pharmaceuticals stock has risen to record highs after the company earned record profits from their wildly successful acne medication, Lucepel, which is now being used by most American teenagers.
    Medical News: Rates of fatal skin cancer have risen by almost fifty percent, mostly among teenagers. Doctors are warning everyone to use sunscreen whenever they spend time outdoors.
    Local News: A scientist and his research assistant from Merriweather Pharmaceuticals have been murdered in an apparent love triangle. The scientist’s wife is missing.
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThom Whalen
    Release dateJul 28, 2017
    ISBN9781370477494
    Bloody Profits
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    Thom Whalen

    Thom Whalen studied experimental psychology at UCSD (B.A.), UBC (M.A.) and Dalhousie University (Ph.D.). After working for the Government of Canada conducting research on the human factors of computer networks for thirty years, he retired to begin a new career writing fiction.If you wish to send him email, contact information is available at http://thomwhalen.com/ He eagerly awaits comment on his stories.

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