O.R. 3

A Novel by Clifford Roberts
Published by Skywriter Publications
4395 Windsor Drive
Provo Utah 84604-6301
ISBN #-0-9721653-3-9
226 pgs $18.95

 

Being a Doctor is a unique profession. You spend years going to school, even more if you decide to specialize, and come out ready to cure disease and save mankind. You see people from all occupations and lifestyles, and you do your best to make them well and sometimes you can’t. Still you go on, seeing patient after patient, putting in long hours for great pay, and sometimes it can just be a thankless job. And sometimes you have just had enough. And sometimes you are a sick evil twisted man that should never have been a doctor in the first place, Hippocratic oath be damned. You are deadlier than the snakes wrapped around the rod of the medical symbol combined. If that is the case, you are the main character of evil in the novel O.R. 3 by Clifford Roberts.

Dr. McIntyre is one of the sickest, most vile excuses for a human that I have read about in a long time, and what he does to his ‘patients’ is beyond reprehensible-it makes for great reading. In the tradition of super-author Robin Cook, comes a medical thriller that borders on horror most grand. Author Roberts creates a world deep in suspense, rich in characterizations, and filled with terror at the hands of someone universally blindly trusted by almost everyone.

The writing style of Mr. Roberts is invigorating in its freshness, and rich in subplots that don’t pay off as you might think. One character in particular, Jane, comes across as a strong female in what all too often is nothing more than an afterthought.

This novel offers something quite different within its covers as well as the main story. After you get through reading O.R.3, you are treated to an excerpt from the novel Poison Blood, also by Mr. Roberts. This included chapter is just enough to wet your appetite for this book as well, my compliments for the marketing maven who thought that up.

So, to sum up, O.R. 3 is not for the squeamish, but if you want to meet evil personified in the guise of a saint and watch as the body count rises, then this book is for you. Now I’m waiting to read Poison Blood-your tease worked on at least this reader, and I don’t fall for things like that easily.