Remote Control

Synopsis

With this newest riveting Dr. Alan Gregory

thriller, bestselling author Stephen White unfolds a

compelling psychological tale of complex moral

issues, intrigue, and murder.

Emma Spire is the daughter of the assassinated

Surgeon General of the United States. She has been on the

cover of every national magazine. Her beauty, her brains,

her bravery--all are public property. She is fair game for

celebrity sharks the country over. Everyone wants a piece

of her--and she must escape the feeding frenzy at all

costs. But she cannot, and the consequences are deadly.

Thus the stage is set for Dr. Alan Gregory'*fliost

stunning, brainteasing crisis yet. The Colorado-based psychologist-sleuth

must solve a case of twisted desire and

terror to save not only a golden girl pursued by the furies

of fame but also his wife, Boulder County D.A Lauren

Crowder, imprisoned on suspicion of murder. For it was

Lauren who took Emma under her wing, and it was

Lauren who pulled the trigger on the mysterious stalker

who menaced Emma's safety and sanity.

Complicating the case is a six-foot-eight defense

attorney with a razor tongue and the extraordinary ex

wife he employs as a pnvate investigator; a take-charge

man out of Emma's past, whom she trusts perhaps not too

wisely; and the biotech genius tycoon, who has used

Emma in a way she cannot forget or forgive. Step by step,

amid accelerating acts of terror, Alan Gregory suspects

he may be dealing not with a sick mind fixated on a fantasy

of female perfection but with deadly greed fueled

by a high-tech prize that may be worth billions. Meanwhile,

his investigation is turned into a desperate race

against time as a medical emergency threatens to turn his

wife's incarceration into a death sentence.

SSet in the beautifully rendered Colorado locale that

Stephen White has staked out as his own fictional

territory, peopled by a cast of characters who range the

spectrum from the ordinary to the bizarre.