Substance of Abuse
Published on 12. September 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
292 pages
978-1-4772-6745-5 (ISBN)
Description
What if the U.S. Congress considered legalizing drugs?
A prominent surgeon, DR. TONY RYAN, finds himself at the helm of the country's first experimental drug distribution program, which has been set up in Santa Barbara.
Two months into its uneventful operation, Ryan returns from a brief holiday to find not only the program suddenly on the brink of disaster, but himself perilously pitched into a high-stakes life-threatening attack.
On one hand, Substance of Abuse is a "Crichtonesque beach-reader" novel -- an intriguing adventure from Santa Barbara to Rome. And, on the other hand, it has an original high-concept premise whose highly charged controversial nature will surely leave the reader much to think about long after the last page is turned.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
478 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4772-6745-5 (9781477267455)
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Person
Mark Berman is the CEO and Founder of FutureFeed, a modern compliance platform focused on NIST and other compliance standards. The product is part of the Continuous Compliance family where Mark builds products and services that translate from the server room to the board room. Design thinking, innovation, and noise-free decision-making, are principles driving impact in each organization where Mark has been able to have influence.
Mark served as a founding director of the CMMC Accreditation Body (CyberAB).
When not focused on FutureFeed and challenges facing the DoD supply chain, Mark supports the Baltimore community in which he lives and supports education initiatives when and where possible. Recently, appointed to chair the board at the nationally acclaimed Greenspring Montessori School. As in his business ventures, Mark strives to inject innovation in education in way to ignite creativity in every child.
Mark graduated from the College of William and Mary with a degree in Computer Science where he completed graduate work at NASA's Langley Research Center. He later completed an MBA at Loyola College of Maryland.
Mark lives with his wife Tania and dog Millie in the Fells Point neighborhood of Baltimore, MD. They proudly cherish Tania's daughter, Sasha, who lives and works as a reporter in Kyiv, Ukraine.