Paul Boor – författare

Dr. Peter Mallow, a world-renowned university scientist hot on the trail of a lethal Asian bird flu, becomes concerned over the erratic behavior of his newest research student. He records his observations about the troubled young man in a common laboratory notebook. Mallow’s notes take us into a downward spiral of career destruction, corporate wrongdoing, a devastating hurricane, and the deadliest pandemic in history. Will Mallow’s notes survive? Can the virus be stopped? And who is the scientist destined to become a Nobel laureate?

It’s the year 1889, and a shrewd Yankee ice merchant, Nicolas Van Horne, has been carving out a profitable side-business. Deep in his ship’s icy hold, dozens of human cadavers lie between the huge blocks of ice. On this delivery, his first to Galveston’s new Medical School, Nicolas makes the ghastly discovery that he’s been trafficking in murdered boys. Only with the help of Renée Keiller, Galveston’s lovely lady scientist, will Nicolas eventually solve the puzzle his ice holds . . . but first he must overcome his personal demon of morphine addiction, and become inextricably entangled in Renée’s experiments on the most dreaded killer of the time, Yellow Fever.Paul Boor, M.D., is a scientist and professor at Galveston’s medical school, the oldest west of the Mississippi. His first novel, BLOOD NOTES, was a modern biomedical thriller. In THE ICE MERCHANT, Dr. Boor explores the history of the body trade, while plumbing the depths of the human frailties of those devoted to scientific discovery.