Uncharted Country, Uncertain Future
Sybil Norcroft, M.D., Ph.D, F.A.C.S. leaves California under a cloud. She has been found innocent of a murder charge there but cannot be certain that she will succeed in her new profession as a Wolf News Medical Consultant. The health news story of the century falls into her lap, and the novice commentator runs with […]
Finders Keepers, Losers Weep
Finders Keepers, Losers Weep: A Novel of Innocence Betrayed and the Search for Restitution is loosely based on an actual event reported in the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, by Michael D. Sorkin entitled, Federal Agents Raid St. Charles Home by Mistake. Informer Told ATF that the house was center of illegal guns ring. Randolph Kennedy, […]
Sheep Dog and the Wolf
Sheep Dog and the Wolf: A Story of Terrorism and Response, and the Sheep Dogs Who Protect, tells about Hunter Caulfield–a man who had long since shaken off his extraordinary past—Hunter had been in the nefarious CIA Phoenix program during the ‘police action’ in Vietnam, and had learned a dangerous skill set. His old buddy, […]
All in Jest
“It is really quite simple,” the renowned French Canadian expert on pituitary surgery began his answer. Neurosurgeon defendant Sybil Norcroft, M.D., F.A.C.S., PhD steeled herself to hear the description that could possibly spell the end of her rising career. Even a glance at the imperturbable face of her defense attorney failed to convey any calm […]
The Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast
The carefully crafted projects and deep secrets of the Islamic Republic of Iran and their opponents in the Iran Nuclear Weapons Interdiction Project each bring their best and their worst to fruition in this the final book in the Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast Trilogy. Both sides are playing an extremely expensive […]
Dancing with the Devil
Dancing with the Devil is the second book in the trilogy, The Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast, by Carl Douglass. The determined senior officials of the Iranian government present their progress to the Supreme Leader who is highly displeased with the effort and the accomplishment. He urges them to create a nuclear […]
Though They Come from the Ends of the Earth
This is the first book in the trilogy, The Trojan Horse in the Belly of the Beast, by Carl Douglass. The two young mental giants who dominate this trilogy could not have come from more different backgrounds if they had been born on separate planets. Though they come from the ends of the earth, the […]
The End of the Beginning
The End of the Beginning represents a new avenue for author Carl Douglass to pursue. The protagonist of this novella is Sybil Norcroft, M.D., PhD., F.A.C.S who will be instantly recognizable to his fans as the striking main character in Carl’s popular novel, All in Jest. Sybil makes a serious mistake, at least in retrospect. […]
Decisions
Sybil Norcroft, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.S. has been nominated and confirmed to be the Surgeon General of the United States after a stellar career as a practicing and academic neurosurgeon and as a media darling for Wolf News. But…all is not what it seems to be. Dr. Norcroft is also a consummate spy whose secret life […]
Saga of a Neurosurgeon: The Vulture and the Phoenix
Arthur Koestler, the notable twentieth century playwright said, “Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.” Carl Douglass, neurosurgeon turned author, writes with gripping realism about the point in Garven Wilsonhulme, M.D., F.A.C.S’s life when he turns the hopes and aspirations of his family, friends, colleagues, and opponents into illusions. In so doing, […]