Three medical scientists, Drs. Robin Keal, Roger Bach, and
John Matson, in a moment of haste and poor medical judgment use
an unapproved experimental medical treatment to save the life of
an ER patient, Jimmy Faloni, a common thug with links to the
dominant organized crime syndicate, Mal de Ojo. The result is
unexpected and leads them on a pathway of intrigue, personal
conflict, and violence. It leads them into an underground world
of mystery, Mole City, which few know and even fewer have
experienced. Unexpectedly, Dr. Robin Keal becomes pregnant, the
unborn child becoming a pawn between good and evil. For within
the child is a genetic material that can bring salvation to the
head of Mal de Ojo, Victor Morales, but unbeknownst to Robin
Keal a genetic time bomb exists that if let unchecked will
result in ....
"This time Keal responds in her more usual manner. Surgery
is still a man's world. For a woman it's like running a hundred
yard, high hurdle dash, while male counterparts run the same
distance without the interposed hurdles. And there's the OR, the
place of visual inquisition, where male eyes dissect your body
instead of your mind. Where male minds wonder what you look like
beneath those scrubs...if your breasts have large aureoles, if
your perineum is shaven, if your belly is tight or flabby. And
they try to look into your mind...is she horny, or perhaps she's
a lesbian...and what's her act with the short-cropped hair, and
the eyebrows that aren't plucked just right... and that rough
voice eager to say...."
"Shit, snap out of it, Keal thinks to herself. This is not
the time to...the belly, that's all that counts. She looks down
at it. It gapes canyon wide and just as deep. The peritoneal
edges are ragged. The vascular clamp beats to an occasional
erratic heart beat. The liver, spleen, and kidneys pale for lack
of oxygenated blood. The aorta below the clamp is severed in
three places. The left diaphragm is lacerated down the middle,
each leaf fluttering like a butterfly caught in a glass jar. A
part of the stomach herniates through the defect. And the
intestines. Hopeless."
