Runners' Blood

Yale professor James J. Fischer, M.D., Ph.D., cancer specialist, marathon runner and now novelist, has written an intriguing tale of mystery and deception based on a discovery from his own laboratory. Runners' Blood is a story about cheating in sports, and while it is fiction, the science that forms its basis is factual and makes blood doping and EPO suddenly seem primitive by comparison.The author is a distinguished scientist, who has served for many years as the chairman of Yale's radiation oncology department. An avid runner, he has completed a triathlon and eleven marathons, and he writes with an insight that comes only from experience. The characters are real, the university is real, and the laboratories and the science are real. The running is real, miles and miles of it, sprints, lactate training, endurance runs, altitude training, discipline, effort, boredom and pain. And the racing venues are real, from the narrow wooden track of Madison Square Garden to Dublin's Phoenix Park. And finally we are standing at the starting line in Sydney wondering with Sean whether Joan's remedy will really work.Could this actually happen? Is it already happening? The perfect mystery for an Olympic year.James J. Fischer is the author of 'Runners' Blood' with ISBN 9781891231216 and ISBN 1891231219.