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Hired to protect Maisy Andrus--a vociferous supporter of the right to die--from a potential assassin, John Francis Cuddy must put his marathon training on a back burner to get involved with the Andrus case--a job that dredges up painful memories of his own wife's slow death
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When euthanasia advocate and professor Maisy Andrus receives anonymous death threats, Boston private investigator John Cuddy (last seen in the taut Yesterday's News ) is hired to keep her alive. As this smooth mystery progresses, Cuddy's list of potential assassins grows to include everyone from hysterical fundamentalists to rabid neo-Nazis. However, the PI discovers that her most dangerous enemies may be closer to home: Andrus's stepson knows that she gave a lethal injection to his dying father and was never charged with murder, while Andrus's current husband would inherit a fortune upon her death. Later, the would-be killer plays at target practice with Andrus and Cuddy, and Cuddy fears that he is a pawn in a contest where the same fate may await winner and loser--death. Healy uses finesse to make an appeal for understanding an emotion-charged issue.
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This time out, Boston's tough/sentimental p.i. John Cuddy (Yesterday's News, etc.) is asked by an old friend to find out who's sending nasty, threatening notes to law professor Maisie Andrus. Andrus--a right-to-die advocate whose recent book has made her a public figure (plus a raft of enemies)--is now married to ex- tennis pro Tucker Hebert. Dr. Enrique Duran, her first husband, died in Spain, with her help, after a paralyzing stroke. His deaf- mute servant and prot‚g‚ Manolo is still with Andrus, guarding her, as does solicitous secretary Ines Roja, a Cuban refugee. Cuddy talks to everyone even remotely involved with Andrus--stepson Ramon Cuervo; enemy academic Walter Strock; gay activist Alec Bacall; pathetic Louis Doleman, whose daughter committed suicide after reading Andrus's book, and even Gunther Yary, head of a neo-Nazi hate group. But nothing can save Andrus--and only the vivid characters, lots of Marathon lore, and the Boston backdrop salvage the far- fetched plot in this flawed but lively entertainment. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
Across the country, Boston private eye John Cuddy intends to find out who has threatened right-to-die advocate Professor Maisy Andrews via her private mail. Looking past the rather motley crew around the wealthy professor--a deaf mute bodyguard, a diabetic gay activist, a Cuban refugee, and a younger tennis pro husband--Cuddy checks college antagonists and hate-mail writers. Healy fills the spaces around this negligible plot with Cuddy's preparations for running his first Boston marathon. Not much action or suspense, but series followers ( Swan Dive , HarperCollins, 1988; So Like Sleep , LJ 4/1/87; etc.) may continue to appreciate the Boston surrounds.
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