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Novel in Outline Form
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Starlight Deaths
Murder is the prescription in this twisted story of a ruthless pornographer who built an empire to rival that of Donald trump's. With his XXX magazine, 6 porno satellite channels, 4 video and DVD publishing titles, and a horde of ancillary businesses based on people's sins--Hugh Goggnioni has stumbled across a cure for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease all rolled into one. Ethics not being a stumbling block to Goggnioni's blind ambition, Goggnioni is willing to do whatever it takes to be the first to tap into this multi-billion-dollar lynchpin drug.
There is one problem: The cure only comes form a chemical derived from the pituitary glands of 4-year-old girls at 4 in the morning, when they are terrified nearly to death. With their serum cortisol levels at their highest, peaking to 10 times normal, an infinitesimal proenzyme, Q-1, is briefly formed. Found nowhere else in nature, Q-1 has to be extracted at the moment of terror, otherwise it disappears. Goggnioni hires butchers to snare his prey in the ghettos outside of Rio de Janeiro. Within a month, over 100 4-year-old girls are murdered, and Goggnioni has his first stash of miracle drug ready to go to market.
One more victim is needed to complete the formulation. In an ironic twist of fate, the girl to be murdered is actually the daughter of her slayer. Born as the result of rape, Angelica is kidnapped by Goggnioni's chief thug at her daycare center in Phoenix, Arizona. At 4 in the morning she is going to be murdered.
While in New York City Alex serendipitously becomes aware of Goggnioni's unthinkable plan. Alex has only until the morning to stop the murder of Angelica--and end Goggnioni's Machiavellian machine.
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