A serial rapist has a chilling motive: He desperately wants children from his own bloodline, but his loving wife cannot bear children. He uses his position as a hospital employee to penetrate their database where he manipulates tests at the blood lab. As married women outpatients are routinely tested, David adds tests to determine their ovulation cycle. If they are ovulating, he abducts them and injects them with a cocktail of drugs. He rapes them repeatedly, until he is sure they are pregnant, then carefully removes all evidence of his crime and releases them. His victims have lost a week or so of their lives, but because of the drugs, have no memory of their abduction. Like the cuckoo bird, David has placed his children in another's nest. Over several months, he has successfully impregnated several women and it seems no one has caught on. The drugs didn't work on Marcella Roberts. She retained her memory and saw his face. With no other choice, he killed her. Detective Alec Theron investigates Marcella's homicide and interviews the women whose memory was lost. One thing is obvious; they're all pregnant. Putting together the bits and pieces, and the women's activities before and after their memory loss, Theron is led to the hospital lab. As he struggles to tie the serial rapist to his homicide case, Theron must deal with a rival detective who will stop at nothing to see him fail. Theron must also spend his off-duty time searching the city's slums and crack houses for his troubled, runaway daughter.

As the years unfolded for me, a recurring desire was trying to rhyme words. Limericks offered the opportunity along with the challenge of meter. Of the many that have been penned, I have summoned the courage to select those enclosed, sprinkled with satire and a dash of poetic license. One target of the satire is the system of medical care existing for patients and doctors alike. For both, insurance carriers and the federal government dictate the parameters within which care may be dispensed. No longer do doctors have the independence to "hang out a shingle" like dentists still do, and establish a solo practice. For the most part, group practice prevails, time constraints exist, care is less personal, and medicine has become a business, as it has to for anyone to survive. While my crystal ball is murky, the future does not look too enticing for medicine.

Niagara Falls police detective, Alec Theron, meets Jalila Rouchai, and love blossoms almost immediately. When Jalila and her young son leave to pay respects to her husband's grave at Arlington, her brother-in-law, Masood, abducts them. A radical Muslim and childless, Masood insists that he raise his brother's son under his own perverse interpretation of the Quran. Theron rescues his new love and her son. Theron learns that Masood is a high-ranking terrorist preparing to attack the U.S. with a bio-weapon. As one of the Seven Wonders of the World, Niagara Falls attracts tourists from all over the globe. Now it has drawn Masood. His terrorist cell has obtained a super smallpox virus and a means to spray the deadly mist over the thousands of tourists visiting the falls at Niagara. His victims will carry the deadly disease around the infidel world. Theron, working with the FBI, must infiltrate the terrorists' bio-lab to render their weapon harmless, and then capture all members of the cell. At the same time, he must stop Masood from taking his lover's young son.

While investigating the homicide of a teenage girl, Detective Lieutenant Alec Theron and his partner, Orca learn the murdered girl's English teacher had been having illicit sex with the 14-year-old. The detectives must pit their skills against interference from the suspect's mother, who is a backroom political powerhouse. Theron's career hangs by a thread after he's suspended pending a hearing. The coerced mayor intends to fire him to derail the investigation. Just when Theron thinks things can't get worse, Orca's daughter is kidnapped. The detectives must battle corrupt politicians and a sociopathic mastermind to rescue Orca's daughter and bring the rapist and murderer to justice.

When the bodies of four teenage girls, are found tied to a rope and floating in the lower Niagara River, the best investigator in the county, police officer Alec Theron, takes on the case. Theron fights a shadowy organization whose main activity is human trafficking for prostitution, using the Niagara River along the Canadian-American border. The evidence points to a fifth girl who survived the drowning and is out there somewhere. Theron suspects that she fears she will be caught by the smugglers and killed, but she's more afraid that she will be found by the authorities and sent back. Theron finds the girl and she is able to identify the men who drowned her friends. The girl leads him to the criminal organization. Theron's investigation uncovers the secrets of this organization and threatens to topple the empire they've built and run for decades. Theron collides with the criminals in the rapids above the roaring Niagara Falls. The climax takes place in the rushing water, literally feet from the brink of the falls.

Almost seven billion people roam the earth. Although we have different beliefs, lifestyles and physical characteristics, there are patterns of behavior that we all share.

We also share the same building blocks of life-DNA, RNA, and proteins. The double-stranded configuration of DNA is found in the nucleus of every living cell and, regardless of whether someone is Asian, African or European, include the same basic components.

This detailed look at humanity examines men and women from the inside and outside and scrutinizes factors that influence behavior. Author Dr. Robert Kerin explores the theories of well known scholars such as Thomas Robert Malthus, Alfred Wallace, and Charles Darwin, along with other theorists, such as Dr. Robert Lifton, who has written extensively about genocide and the Nazis. Additionally, he discusses the role of religion and mythology in the development of humanity, the differences between intelligent design and evolution, the reasons humanity is prone to violence, and the ways in which authority affects behavior.

Join Dr. Kerin as he explores our similarities, differences, strengths, and weaknesses. Develop a deeper understanding of who we are with "A Glimpse into the Man in Mankind."

The general topic of medicine is subject to change, almost without notice. New medications and new procedures are commonplace. Medicine in Milford portrays a trip on the time train from the 1950s into the third millennium, on that subject. It provides a genealogical glimpse of the medical family constituting the engine of medical care in the Milford Hospital, and in the community, of Milford Connecticut. The medical staff is divided into general practitioners and specialists. More detail is devoted to those on staff in the earlier period. A common meeting place for the medical staff at the hospital was the doctor's dressing room, in the book called the Rendezvous Room. Street clothes were exchanged here for operating togs, opinions aired and issues discussed. The book details some of the discussions and describes many of those who served so well, all wrapped in a bit of nostalgia.