Sledgehammer by Paulo Reyes - Terrorists in the ER – Smallpox Epidemic

With the growing threat of a biochemical attack by terrorists, this fiction book summarizes what would happen and how prepared the nation is. The book is well written depicting factual ER events and well developed characters. You long for the cure to stop the smallpox epidemic in time and save the nation.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) December 22, 2005 -- It's been in the news, it's been in the movies: terrorist attacks on trains, in nightclubs and the worst terrorist attack in U.S history on the World Trade Tower in New York City. But will the next terrorist attack strike even closer to home – your own hospital’s emergency room.

That’s the premise behind the new gripping medical fiction thriller, Sledgehammer, which occurs in a Los Angeles emergency room, where terrorists have used smallpox as a biological agent with plans to spread it into several sports arenas, airports and shopping malls to maximize its deadly effects.

The emergency room setting is brought vividly to life through the eyes of the author, Dr. Paulo J. Reyes, a practicing Emergency Room Doctor and First Responder to disasters in Los Angeles, whose medical career has spanned 25 years.

In Sledgehammer, the hospital staff in a Los Angeles emergency room faces the daunting challenge of preventing the contagious disease from quickly spreading and affecting their patients and colleagues alike. What adds further drama is the discovery that this particular form of smallpox is an aggressive type – sledgehammer smallpox or a malignant smallpox which starts out as non-typical rash and quickly turns into a life-threatening situation.

Dr. Reyes is also the author of Health-Care Reform or Redistribution of Cost? and is currently working on the sequel to this book. Realizing there’s a clear and present danger of a terrorist attack today leads him to support voluntary smallpox vaccinations and through his book to spread the word of potential dangers.

With new terrorist threats everyday, the growing concern of a biochemical attack and the fear of a global pandemic, Sledgehammer is an excellent book to add to your collection. Available at Dr. Reyes’ website http://www.pauloreyes.com and at Amazon and leading online bookstores.

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