000320173 000__ 03377cam\a2200373\a\4500 000320173 001__ 320173 000320173 005__ 20210513115545.0 000320173 008__ 030701s2003\\\\nyu\\\\\\\\\\\000\1\eng\d 000320173 010__ $$a 2003271798 000320173 019__ $$a53982340$$a70193530 000320173 020__ $$a0743206061 000320173 020__ $$a9780743206068 000320173 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm51743454 000320173 040__ $$aWVK$$cWVK$$dDLC$$dXY4$$dBAKER$$dBTCTA 000320173 042__ $$alccopycat 000320173 043__ $$an-us-ny 000320173 049__ $$aISEA 000320173 05000 $$aPS3553.L287$$bS43 2003b 000320173 08200 $$a813/.54$$222 000320173 1001_ $$aClark, Mary Higgins. 000320173 24514 $$aThe second time around /$$cMary Higgins Clark. 000320173 260__ $$aNew York :$$bSimon & Schuster,$$cc2003. 000320173 300__ $$aviii, 302 p. ;$$c22 cm. 000320173 520__ $$aIn a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding with Nicholas Spencer's disappearance comes news that the FDA is denying approval. Then follows the shocking revelation that Spencer had looted Gen-stone of huge sums of money -- including the lifetime savings of people who had risked every penny they had. Marcia "Carley" DeCarlo, the thirty-two-year-old columnist for the Wall Street Weekly, is assigned to cover the story. Carley is the stepsister of Spencer's wife, Lynn, an aggressive PR woman and socialite, whom she dislikes and distrusts. The day after news of her husband's disappearance rocks the financial and medical world, Lynn attends a meeting of the stockholders of Gen-stone, flaunting expensive clothing and jewelry. Accused of having participated in the scam, she appears indifferent to the anger and despair of the people attending, among them a man whose child has cancer and who is now about to lose his home. That night, she narrowly escapes death when her mansion in Bedford, New York, is set on fire. She turns to Carley, begging her to use her investigative skills to prove that she was not her husband's accomplice. As Carley proceeds with her investigation, she is confronted by seemingly impenetrable questions: Is Nicholas Spencer dead or in hiding? Was he guilty or set up? Why the sudden reversal in medical opinion of the vaccine from recognition to condemnation? And as the facts begin to unfold, she becomes the target of a dangerous group involved in a sinister and fraudulent scheme. The Second Time Around is Mary Higgins Clark at her best, telling a story that intertwines fiction with the stuff of real-life headlines in a novel of breathtaking suspense and surprises. 000320173 650_0 $$aWomen journalists$$vFiction. 000320173 650_0 $$aCancer$$xResearch$$vFiction. 000320173 650_0 $$aMissing persons$$vFiction. 000320173 650_0 $$aEmbezzlement$$vFiction. 000320173 651_0 $$aNew York (State)$$vFiction. 000320173 655_7 $$aSuspense fiction.$$2gsafd 000320173 85200 $$bgen$$hPS3553.L287$$iS43$$i2003b 000320173 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/simon052/2003271798.html 000320173 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon041/2003271798.html 000320173 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2003271798-s.html 000320173 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:320173$$pGLOBAL_SET 000320173 980__ $$aBIB 000320173 980__ $$aBOOK 000320173 994__ $$aC0$$bISE