A gang of criminals devise a scheme to defraud insurance companies by faking heart attacks. Their plot includes a method of altering cardiograms, a relatively new diagnostic tool in 1931, the setting of this story.

Stuart Downing, a young physician, suspects the scheme, but digging out the evidence proves a deadly pursuit. Downing is up against a devious lawyer, unscrupulous doctors, crooked insurance agents and killers.

Downing must match his ingenuity against theirs with an unimaginable threat lurking at his every move.

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Praise for the novels of Barry Friedman

Dead End
" supplies his readers with plenty of tension right to the end."
-Inscriptions Magazine
" Lively police procedural."
-San Diego Union-Tribune
" Fantastic story."
-Huntress Book Reviews

Assignment: Bosnia
"Exceptionally well-written thriller."
-Shirley Allen, author of Roxanna Britton
"This thriller kept me glued to the pages."
-Oceanside reviewer
"Very suspenseful."
-AllReaders.com

The Shroud
Awarded runner-up Best Novel, suspense/thriller category, 2001 San Diego Book Awards.