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In Special Treatment a mediocre baseball team suddenly starts winning big. So an orthopedic surgeon and a reporter team up to uncover the horrifying medical secret that turns ordinary players into supermen...and corpses.

"A fine writer...[Fisher] fills her book with real medical interest." (Publishers Weekly)

Author Bio: Nancy Fisher is an award-winning creator, director and producer of home and corporate videos as well as two national cable television series. She was formerly an advertising agency creative director in New York and London. Her other novels are Vital Parts, Side Effects, Code Red, and Code Blue.

Publishers Weekly

Toiletries king Morgan Hudson suddenly finds himself in possession of a bona fide miracle. It's not a new skin cream but his baseball team, the losing New York Comets. With the help of three "superplayers" who are all batting over .300 (one .375), he's got a chance at the pennant. Skeptical doctors, sportswriters and the new baseball commissioner haven't been able to find any sign of hormones, steroids or anything in common among the teammatesexcept that they all train at the very exclusive Pro Club. When the superplayers start turning violent, cub reporter Robin Kennedy and orthopedic surgeon Adam Salt find themselves thrown together to reveal what conventional tests won't. There isn't, perhaps, enough intimation of real danger to make it a great thriller, and one knows what villainy's afoot pretty early, but Fisher (Side Effects) is a fine writer and fills her book with real medical interest and a baseball angle for full summertime appeal. (Aug.)