James Wilberforce has finally achieved the American dream. Since immigrating to America from the West Indies as a young adult, he's managed to build a successful business and family with his wife and three children. James knows he leads a blessed life, and he is eager to expand his achievements.
Then the unthinkable happens: James learns he has a rare form of bone-marrow cancer that has yet to be successfully treated and cured. The only expert attempting to research the disease is Professor Hooper, who's conducting a study on experimental treatments.
Professor Hooper is James's best hope of survival, and his research associate Dr. Mary-Ann Sanford assures James that he is in good hands while he's participating. Although James's symptoms improve at first, his condition later worsens. James desperately wants to believe in the cure, but even as Professor Hooper and Mary-Ann assure him it's within reach, his deteriorating body may be evidence of a dangerous scheme at work.
As his trust in the experts begins to waver, he finds his control over his finances and the connection to his once-happy family both waning. James is facing the toughest battle of his life-and it's not just cancer he's fighting.
About the Author: Kamalendu Malaker has spent the last fifty years working with leading experts in the field of oncology. He trained to become a physician at the University of Calcutta in India and earned his doctorate in cell biology from the University of London. Having trained in oncology in Oxford and the Royal Postgraduate Medical School of London University and received his oncology degree from the Royal College, Malaker became the senior registrar and clinical tutor in radiation oncology at the University of London.
Malaker also served as a research officer at the Dana Farber Cancer Center at Harvard University. Additionally, he published the first cancer journal of India in 1962, is credited with helping establish oncology as a clinical discipline, and has since written hundreds of scientific articles. Malaker is currently a professor of oncology and internal medicine at Ross University and head of oncology at Dominica Princess Margaret Hospital.
Malaker and his wife, Baljit, live in Winnipeg, Canada. They have one grown daughter and a granddaughter.
