NEW Novel!

ABOUT BEN

In 1952, an epidemic was sweeping through the United States and much of the world. Ben Levinson, a twenty-three-year-old medical student was in its path. Would he be able to complete his medical education, his goal since he was a boy? Would he be a victim or a hero?

When Ben was ten years old, his Uncle Abraham had come to live with his family after escaping Nazi Germany in 1939. Abraham had been a physician in the slums of Hamburg, ministering to the city’s poor. Given refuge by Ben’s parents, his example inspired young Ben to become a doctor. He was mentor and second father as Ben strove to overcome many of his physical challenges. With his body forever compromised, how could he fulfill his dreams to have a happy personal life and his determination to become a physician?

Accepting the facts and allowing the support of his whole family and very special new friends, Ben tackled his disease even as he watched others enabled to avoid it. Ben took on one of the most difficult tasks of his generation of doctors — helping to uncover previously unrecognized conditions and disorders in children and young people.

Ben was admired for his devotion to patients, his boundless energy and perseverance, and his comprehensive knowledge. He shaped new paths in pediatrics with his advocacy for public health initiatives. He benefited from inventive designs for assistive appliances and emerging acceptance for disabled persons that occurred during the second half of the twentieth century.

He became known as “the pediatrician’s pediatrician,” and like his Uncle Abraham, he delivered optimal care to children of the inner-city poor. Most of all, he was respected for his resilience in the face of adversity.

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THE LEWELLYNS FROM VINCENNES

A story of a twentieth century family whose lives are buffeted by personal losses, two world wars, the Great Depression, family tragedies and triumphs. The distant drumbeat of world events punctuates the fast-moving narrative. Jack, the patriarch, and his wife Sarah, rear three children whose destinies are shaped by Jack’s own failed aspirations and Sarah’s steadfast determination and faith. Based on a true story, its tapestry is woven with invention of scenes and fictionalized dialogue. It is ultimately a story of redemption and resilience.

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“I loved this book! A wonderful story of the lives of a family in the 1900’s punctuated by whirling events of world history. The characters come alive through Reece’s narrative and dialogue, so that you feel both sadness and happiness for the main characters. Everyone will love Sarah, cheer for Martha, and waver through a myriad of feelings towards Jack. It’s an interesting and enjoyable book.”

– Judy Singer

…brilliantly reflects the wider world by showing how wars and external events profoundly affect individuals and whole generations on a personal day-to-day level… one intimately feels tears of sadness and of joy, as well as emotions of jealousy, hopelessness and relief that comes from overcoming impossible odds. This is a winner!“

– James Liljestrand, MD

Available in print or electronic format from Barnes and Noble, Eight Cousins Bookstore, and Titcomb’s bookstores.

STRONG MEDICINE

In a novel that could have been pulled from today’s headlines, Dr. Tom Barrett, respected surgeon and returning war veteran, discovers the rules as set by the pharmaceutical industry. They’re dangerously effective: skyrocketing prices, misleading advertising, manipulation of health care professionals, rigged research, and the suppression of competition. Unscrupulous executives deploy them with a single objective: spike earnings by ensuring that medicines are scarce for patients whose survival depends on them.

Barrett’s answer is to assemble a team of specialists to take on the predators. He creates PharmaTruth – a group of motivated flesh and blood characters. In chapters that take readers behind the scenes of the industry, they face real-life, tight budgets as they set out to battle cynical big pharma executives who’ve long ago crossed the line from greedy to criminal.

Strong Medicine, Dr. Robert Reece’s third novel, is a high-stakes game where big pharma is determined to crush PharmaTruth’s assault on their domain, even as Tom and his team struggle to set things right.

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“A page turner and very timely and important book! One of the more serious issues that need to be dealt with in these strange Covid-19 and political times!”

– Maria H. Moniz

“Patients in the U.S. often face insurmountable expenses when paying for prescription drugs, with huge profits accumulating for drug companies and their executives. In his third novel, Dr. Robert Reece explores this critical issue while creating interesting characters and developing personal interactions among them.”

– Robert Block, MD

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DOUBLE BLIND
DOUBLE CROSS

When trauma surgeon Dr. Tom Barrett returns from military duty in the Middle East War he is stricken with flashbacks, terrifying nightmares and tremors. He learns his old friend and surgical colleague Akira Yamaguchi is conducting a clinical trial of a potential breakthrough drug that could erase bad memories in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) victims.

Unable to function and desperate to get better, Tom enters Yamaguchi’s clinical trial. He quickly learns that some patients have improved markedly on the drug, inspiring hope that it could be the next big thing in mental health.

But something is going wrong. Patients’ symptoms are returning in full force. Akira Yamaguchi turns to Tom to enlist his help in determining the reasons for the drug’s sudden failure. Tom and two fellow patients immerse themselves in a dangerous, high stakes investigation to reveal the shocking answer to the failure of the drug.

“…Reece wields a talented pen. His memorable characters jump off the pages…”

– Steven Manchester,
#1 bestselling author of
The Rockin’ Chair
and Twelve Months

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To Tell The Truth

Based on the author’s forty years of clinical and trial experiences in abusive head trauma (shaken baby syndrome) cases, “To Tell The Truth” describes a fictional case of a young babysitter charged with second degree murder of Luke Talbot, a seven-month-old infant in her care. The story takes the reader from the infant’s sudden collapse, through the harrowing hospital course and the arrest and trial of the babysitter. The courtroom drama-the central story of the novel- highlights medical expert testimony that is irresponsible, far from expert, and at times, simply dishonest.  Judicial decisions are surprising and border on the bizarre. A veteran child abuse pediatrician who has watched this trial from start to finish offers his prescription for changing the process of qualifying experts in medical trials.

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A “compelling story…bring(ing) the reader face-to-face with a startling reality: sometimes criminal cases are influenced by more than “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.”

–Dr. Robert Block
Past President of the AAP

“Moving fiction based on nonfiction. Besides being entertaining and enlightening, (it) is a tool for all Americans…supports the reality of abusive head trauma.”

–Judge Charles Gill
Superior Court of Connecticut

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