White Male Infant

by Barbara D'Amato

Book Overview

Surgical pathologist Dooley McSweeny and his wife dearly love the son they adopted from Russia four years ago. But when medical tests indicate that their little boy could not possibly have come from Russia, the couple is plunged into the dark, complex, and emotionally fraught world of international adoption. Who is their son? Where did he come from? How did he come to them? The answers to these questions threaten to destroy their marriage, their happiness...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765300249
• ISBN13: 9780765300249
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A very good suspense/mystery read...

I really enjoyed it. It's a interesting, different-than-the ususal story line.

A Fast Ride!

"White Male Infant" is a timely novel about foreign adoption. While it relies heavily on coincidence, it is still a page-turner and kept me guessing most of the way through.Dr. Dooley McSweeney is faced with a terrible decision: should he try to find his adoptive son's real parents and risk having to give him back to them? This thought haunts him day and night and he is consumed by fear and anxiety, moving through his days on auto-pilot.Keeping his wife, Claudia, in the dark, he begins doing research on his own. He then hires investigators and heads to Russia in an attempt to put his demons to rest. When he gets there he meets an undercover FBI team and a CNN investigator whose cameraman was murdered. The plot begins to thicken at this point.The visits to Russian orphanages described by D'Amato are so painful and horrible that they defy belief, yet I suspect that this is the way many of them are.In plots that involve a CNN investigation, several murders, kidnappings, a baby-selling cartel, and the FBI, the author puts together a fast-paced medical thriller.

exciting thriller

Surgeon Dooley McSweeney and his wife Claudia worries about the health of their adopted son as they fear he has leukemia. Thankfully, the infection turns out to be mononucleosis. However, they also learn that Teddy's bone sample displays evidence of the antibiotic tetracycline, a drug the McSweeney never provided to their son nor could the dirt-poor Russian orphanage be able to have obtained it. It seems that Teddy never came from Russia so Dooley begins a quest to learn more about Teddy's past.In Moscow, celebrity reporter Gabrielle Coulter is stunned when someone kills her video-photographer and destroys their tapes that expose horrid conditions at a local orphanage. Though the circumstantial evidence points towards Mother Russia zealots, Gabrielle believes the motives are more evil and economic. Soon her search for the truth joins the McSweeney efforts, but a bottom line only adoption factory mill do anything even murder of innocent little ones to keep the profits high.This is an exciting thriller that will shake readers with what feels like a modern day Charles Dickens tale of child abuse caused by an orphanage manufacturing plant. The story line is action packed yet quite emotional as the audience will feel for the children and the McSweeneys. Fans of taut thrillers that provide a deep message will want to read D'Amato's tale.Harriet Klausner