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Thanks for dropping by my site. I’m Robert Thornton, former Coast Guardsman, retired family practitioner and author. I’m a writer of thrillers, interweaving medicine and science in the plots. They are fast paced adventures with flawed but determined characters designed to keep you on the edge of your seat.  Although written as page-turners, great for that summer beach read, on a deeper level my books address significant spiritual concerns such as sacrificial love and forgiveness.
 
My goal is to write novels that are fun and exciting but that also give the reader some food for thought. I hope you find my books enjoyable and informative.
 
Please, take a few moments to explore the website. And, if you have any comments or questions, don’t hesitate to send me an e-mail. 

Books:
THE CURSE
SOMETHING HAS AWAKENED FROM THE PAST...SOMETHING HORRIBLE
When called to consult on a patient with a near-fatal infection, brilliant infectious diseases specialist Dr. Hope Allerd is drawn into a murder investigation. But not just any murder. A serial killer commits gristly “perfect” crimes and calls down a catastrophic ancient Egyptian curse on any and all who would interfere. The body count rises and the police are baffled. As she digs deeper, Hope is thrust into a dangerous upside-down world of betrayal and time travel that takes her from the halls of the ultra-rich to the palaces of ancient Egypt. Can she find the killer before she becomes the next victim of The Curse?

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The Proxima Plague

There are some monsters we cannot see

Brilliant physician, Hope Allerd is back. And this time she encounters her most lethal opponents yet. When she’s asked to consult on a critically ill patient, she encounters a series of near supernatural creatures that arise from an incurable viral disease. As she is pursued by these otherworldly beings, Hope begins to piece together their origin and the type of virus they spread. As whole cities succumb to the viral outbreak, Hope must hunt down and destroy the key to ending the scourge—Patient Zero—before the entire planet is engulfed in an extinction level plague.
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Lethal Paradise

Against all odds She Took on an Army

Hope Allred is a brilliant, intrepid, compassionate, and strong willed African-American physician. She doesn’t need a man to get by. But, when her on again, off again boyfriend, Clive Andrew, contacts her from a Caribbean tropical paradise, with a plea for help, painting a picture of thousands in jeopardy, she feels compelled to go to his aid. On arrival she encounters and bonds with the poor people of the island. Willing to defy authority for the sake of the disenfranchised, Hope takes on the malevolent island dictator, Anton Dubois and his private army. He is bent on murdering an entire population of poor islanders for personal gain. Hope has to battle overwhelming odds to prevent the most heinous act of mass murder since Adolph Hitler.
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The Peril Protocol

Dr. Hope Allerd--intelligent, driven, and independent minded--has landed a fellowship under the mercurial and enigmatic Dr. Francis Peril. His Protocol is a miracle treatment for meningitis.
As brutally murdered women begin turning up on the hospital campus, Clive Andrew, a reporter from Peril’s past appears claiming that Peril is the most horrific serial murderer since Jack the Ripper. Driven by a tragic past, Hope investigates the murders bent on proving the reporter wrong.
    As she digs deeper, Hope is plunged into an abyss of terror that not only threatens her very existence but the lives of hundreds.
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Fatal Impact

Jared Burch has died in an air crash. Marion, his wife, is devastated. But, for Marion, life takes a bizarre turn when she begins to receive late night phone calls from a man sounding eerily like Jared.
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