THE GIRL AT THE BAR

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Cancer vaccine and letter puzzles ...

THE GIRL AT THE BAR
By Nicholas Nash
383 pp. Fireflies Publishing

Reviewed by David E. Hoekenga, M.D.

Despite a completely nondescript title, The Girl at the Bar is a well crafted mystery set in the vicious, high-finance world of cancer drug research. Rebecca is a beautiful, brilliant young researcher who disappears after a night of drinking in New York. The next morning she is slated to deliver an important paper about a vaccine that could protect humans from all forms of cancer.

For several weeks despite finding a bloody dress of hers with stab marks in it, Rebecca’s fate remains unknown. A variety of denizens from bosses, associates, a fiancé, a one-night stand, a Triad member and a research subject come under suspicion.

Nash effectively weaves the timeline of the story, and casts a bright light on the various denizens mentioned above as possible killers. The actual killer turns out to be more vicious and focused that could easily be imagined.

Rebecca’s friend Timothy spoke to Rebecca’s goals before her disappearance: 
A lot happened. See, after Rebecca and I parted ways to join rival companies, we both started working on the basic technology that we developed in Dr. Gupta’s lab and started taking it forward in a different direction. I started perfecting the engineered T cell therapy. My work involved making the immune cells more efficient in attacking cancer. However, what I did involves individualized treatment. Each person who has cancer gets his immune cells removed from his body, modified in our lab and reinfused. Rebecca, on the other hand, decided to leapfrog the next stage of development to work on a universal cancer vaccine, a set of cells that could be injected into anyone’s body to fight cancer. You see, cancer is a generic name for a diverse set of diseases. Cancer can take multiple forms. Each person’s cancer is unique. How do you develop a universal cancer vaccine? That is the Holy Grail of cancer medicine.
As the days pass, more and more people—the police, a private detective, Raoul, and a failed day trader named from an Ayn Rand character (Ragnar) are looking for Rebecca. Ragnar has a shady but resourceful IT character named Eddie Juarez, who helped him hack into several very secure computers and computer systems. Eddie always left a hidden backdoor so he could enter later for more information. 

Clues accumulate slowly, often with letter puzzles. However, the bodies of brutally murdered suspects also accumulate without getting us any closer to the real killer. It begins to look as though the killer will escape and Rebecca will be unable to resume her brilliant career looking for a universal vaccine that would keep all mankind free from the deadly scourge of cancer.

The Girl at the Bar is an exhilarating, well-paced thriller with a twist. While it is a bit on the gory side, it is an enjoyable read.
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