Brought up in Seattle, Allen Wyler’s parents died early which left
him having to wholly support himself through college in a variety
of ways – including serving as a drive-in cook and playing drums as
a professional musician in various blues and jazz groups.
Medicine was his chosen discipline and he went on to have a
distinguished career in his speciality, neurosurgery, which he
determined on very early in his studies. Serving on the faculties
of the University of Washington and the University of Tennessee, he
earned an international reputation for pioneering surgical
techniques to record brain activity. In 1992, he was recruited by
the prestigious `Swedish Medical Centre’ to develop a Neuroscience
Institute. Ten years later, he left active practice to become
Medical Director for a start-up Med-Tech company, and now chairs
the Institutional Review Board of a major medical centre in the
Pacific Northwest.
In the early 1970’s Wyler developed a love of reading thrillers,
and later decided to leverage his medical knowledge by writing
himself. After the publication of his first two medical thrillers,
`Deadly Errors’, and `Dead Head’, in 2005 and 2007 respectively, he
retired from full time day to day medicine to devote more time to
his writing. He has also served as Vice President of the
`International Thriller Writers’ organization for several
years.
He and his wife, Lily, divide their time between Seattle and the
San Juan Islands, and he continues to develop new plots from
real-life situations met during his career. His writing has been
described as `right up there with the best’ and on another
occasion, developing a high-speed plot with a `startling but
all-too-plausible premise’.
A wild Journey... cutting edge science, greed, corruption and
political intrigue, you won't be able to put it down.
*D.P. Lyle*
DEAD END DEAL is a medical thriller of the highest order, reviving
the genre with a splendid mixture of innovation and cutting edge
timeliness. Neurosurgeon Allen Wyler knows of what he speaks, and
writes, and the result is a thriller that equals and updates the
best of Robin Cook and Michael Crichton. His latest is terrifyingly
on mark, riveting in all ways and a masterpiece of science and
suspense.
*John Land*
The suspense builds and builds in this riveting page-turner. It’s a
skillful merging of the medical thriller and political thriller...
Tom Clancy meets Tess Gerritsen!
*Kevin O'Brien*
This is an `up all night’ pass into troubled places that only
hard-working doctors know about, a turbulent world of trusting
patients and imperfect humans struggling with the required image of
perfection. Only a gifted surgeon like Allen Wyler could craft such
a wild and wonderful best-of-breed medical thriller!
*John J. Nance*
With its lightning-paced excitement and fascinating science,
[Wyler’s novels] have everything you could hope for in a medical
thriller!
*Tess Gerritsen*
The gritty, graphic details of cutting-edge surgical procedures,
capped with an exciting conclusion, should keep fans of the genre
riveted
*Publishers Weekly*
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