The Perfect Match

<p>Frank Esposito has an incurable lung disease and needs a double lung transplant</p><p>in a matter of months in order to survive.</p><p><br></p><p>Arch City Transplant Center just opened in St. Louis MO and is challenging</p><p>cultural and ethical paradigms in end-of-life decisions and in the organ</p><p>transplant business. ACTC is run by brilliant doctors: Dr. Alex Finnegan and</p><p>Dr. Ellen James-Calabrese who will push each other and society to create a</p><p>business that will be worth billions of dollars but unbeknownst to Dr. Calabrese</p><p>Finnegan is using his colleagues investors and the poor as pawns to get what he</p><p>truly wants.</p><p><br></p><p>While Finnegan seems to be unstoppable and untouchable a series of carjackings</p><p>and murders being investigated by St. Louis homicide Detective Rhonda Simon</p><p>threatens Finnegan's plans. With the help of a compassionate organ transplant nurse</p><p>and one of Finnegan's business partners Detective Simon realizes her current cases</p><p>are connected to a crime bigger than she originally thought.</p><p><br></p><p>Meanwhile Dr. James-Calabrese's ex-husband Vinnie Calabrese will stop at</p><p>nothing including jeopardizing his ex-wife's career to get his brother-in-law</p><p>Frank the lifesaving double lung transplant he needs.</p><p><br></p><p>Inspired by first-time author Steve Pizzolato's brother-in-law's battle for a</p><p>double lung transplant The Perfect Match is a crime filled adventure of murder</p><p>everyday people ethics the U.S. healthcare system the 'My Body My Choice'</p><p>movement and how it is all connected to impact our future in more ways</p><p>than we can imagine. The novel set in St. Louis will introduce readers to a city</p><p>known nationally for its crime statistics but also a city with world class health</p><p>institutions old world neighborhoods and parks that make St. Louis despite its</p><p>national reputation a very livable community.</p>