The Deception — Barry Reed

A SUICIDAL PATIENT JUMPS FROM A BALCONY--AND ATTORNEY DAN SHERIDAN IS MAKING SURE SOMEONE TAKES THE FALL...

A promising young tennis player with an overly demanding father, Donna DiTullio is hospitalized with suicidal manic-depression. Within weeks of her admittance to St. Anne's she feels better than ever, thanks to an experimental new drug called Capricet. Then, during a break from group therapy, Donna plunges from the hospital's balcony, landing herself at death's door, comatose and paralyzed.

Enter Dan Sheridan, a sharp-edged Boston attorney called in to sue the hospital. As Dan goes up against Boston's two most powerful institutions--the medical establishment and the Church--he finds himself embroiled in a case that will challenge his belief in the law, his personal code of ethics... and may even cost him his life.