The Angry Puppet Syndrome

by John H. Menkes

From the moment Dr. Dan Lerner discovers a bizarre behavior pattern, he is plunged into a maelstrom. Patient after patient is experiencing violent outbursts for no apparent reason. And they all feel... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888799277
• ISBN13: 9781888799279
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Demos Medical Publishing
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Dr. Menkes wrote a medical thriller!

Every pediatrician knows Dr. Menkes as an author of Textbook of Child Neurology or a discoverer of 'Menkes kinky hair syndrome.' I haven't read through the thick textbook yet, but I finished The Angry Puppet Syndrome to the last page. I don't like the ending and the scene of some Japanese researchers making a blunder, although it is quite realistic, unfortunately. I found the author a very good storyteller and learned some of the research funding system of the US which is quite different from Japan. I expect his next novel eagerly.

A good read

A timely and almost too true well-told tale. The protagonists are real and the conflict perhaps increasingly common. It is not only a good story but a needed warning. As an old mystery reader, I'm glad a friend touted me on to it. The author not only knows his subject but his people as well. Rings true.

A tale of the 90's, of good and evil

John Menkes has woven a striking, intense story of medical, legal, and business intrigue. In the atmospheres of medical academia and class action legalism, a mediocre researcher who is an astute and dedicated clinician is threatened and embattled by his superiors and by the hierarchy of a powerful drug cartel as he attempts to force recall of a newly approved antidepressant associated with devastating, yet inconstant, side effects. Working with a brilliant and attractive woman attorney, he faces innumerable illegal and immoral roadblocks as he struggles to prevent further distribution of this potentially useful but dangerous drug. Well-written, medically and legally erudite, this book is a fascinating, quick-moving tale that provides both nail-biting entertainment and valuable education. The details of the development of the drug, of its clinical usage, of its bizarre side effects, of its monetary value to the drug company, and of the legal maneuverings by both plaintiff and defendent could only have been written by someone privy to the most intimate details of medical research and the judicial process.