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Steven Vogel

WANTED: A literary agent and publisher for the haunting medical thriller Wicked Good. Here's a preview ... and if you're the agent of my dreams, I'd love to hear from you. 

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Set in the shadowy worlds of unregulated genomics research and corrupt Big Sugar in South Florida, this debut thriller explores themes of revenge, betrayal, noble greed—and the unintended consequences of tinkering with the life code.

          By day, Cassie Wilder is a promising law intern who lucked out in the genes department, being both whip-smart and adorably pretty. By night, masquerading in sprigged wigs, tight silky things, and bright pink lipstick as her twin sister Grace, she’s even harder to miss. In her shoulder bag, she packs cash, Baby Wipes, and a cellphone gun loaded with sux-poisoned pellets.

          By the time her brother, ex-pro baseball prodigy, Peter Wilder, and his son, Jack, find a dead body on a beached yacht, she has struck three times. All fatal heart attacks. All high-powered Big Sugar executives, who worked for the same genetics research institute as their late mother—the tragic victim last summer of an “accidental” drowning. Coincidence or sinister plot?

          For Peter, the answer lies within his mother's missing journal, exposing the institute's cover-up of an off-the-grid genetics project ...  where therapies trigger unintended consequences ... volunteers go missing ... and the men running the place are now dropping like flies.

          When Peter uncovers the missing manuscript with its unfathomable secrets, he becomes a target—and Jack is kidnapped, as trade bait. Now the washed-up Big Leaguer  faces a grave decision: Stop the killing, give up his sister, and save many  innocent lives entrapped in the monstrous genetic experiments—or save the life of his kidnapped son.

When vengeance is the most appealing option.

"Revenge is sweet and not fattening."

—Alfred Hitchcock

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"Evolution has been working toward optimizing the human genome for 3.85 billion years. Do you think that some small group of tinkerers could do better without all sorts of unintended consequences?"

-Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health

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"It's a mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead."

—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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About

Steven Vogel is an award-winning freelance writer/editor, magazine contributor and creative director, before migrating to the corporate world, completing thousands of writing assignments for some of the biggest names in the Fortune 2000. He self-published a nonfiction memoir The Prostrate Storm (Amazon) and a photobook Up Kilimanjaro, both raising funds for prostate cancer research. Wicked Good is his debut novel. He also has completed a YA mystery adventure, Raising Sloop John B (first in a series)in search of an agent. Steve and his wife, Lorraine, live with their two cats in Delray Beach, Florida.

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Hours before summitting Kilimanjaro.

The snows are melting along the Western Wall,

the Massai's 'House of God'—but we never found

the frozen leopard. I looked everywhere.

By the way, Hemingway never got this high,

except by plane.

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Coming soon...

Raising Sloop John B

A Barlow Boys Mystery Adventure

     Teenage friends take refuge on a remote island off the Florida coast after a storm capsizes their sailboat, only to discover they aren't alone—the uncharted coral cay is a yacht chop-shop and smuggling haven for modern-day pirates.  

     Sloop John B is a YA novel, now complete, and looking for representation.

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