The Deadly Blue Diamond

<p><em>The Deadly Blue Diamond</em> a fast-paced thriller pits a young surgeon against vicious mobsters crooked cops and Chicago politicians. Little Louie who killed his first man at age fifteen organized a robbery to steal the Blue Diamond a power symbol that belonged to Al Capone. The heist goes bad. Rooky cops shoot Louie's punch-drunk accomplice after he swallowed the diamond. A young surgeon who lost his confidence in the Korean War operates for the gunshot but doesn't find the diamond. The patient dies.</p><p>The cops and a big-time politician claim the surgeon stole the diamond. The surgeon and a sexy reporter steal the body from the morgue to retrieve the diamond but the hit man shoots a cop and kidnaps the reporter the surgeon and the corpse. The surgeon does an autopsy with a switchblade finds the diamond and stabs the mobster. The chase is on through the streets of Chicago into Bubbly Creek and onto storm-tossed Lake Michigan. The reporter uses her charms to lay hands on the diamond.</p><p><strong>About The Author</strong>:</p><p>John Raffensperger MD was a surgeon at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago during the 1950's. His descriptions of the hospital surgery the morgue and Chicago are accurate realistic and a little bloody. As in the story he really did apply bare electric wires to the chest of a patient in cardiac arrest. He writes about mobsters and their victims with a pen as sharp as a surgical scalpel.</p><p>He was a professor of surgery and has written textbooks medical history stories for children and historical fiction. Dr. R. now lives in Florida with his wife a dog named Rosie and two elderly cats.</p><p> </p>