The exchange and the dilemma are the essence of Pandora's Prisoner.

Every  day millions of people get up in the morning and have failed to make me a best selling author. It is an unforgivable act. But more than that each of these people have missed and opportunity to discover the provocative premises that my stories have to offer. 

In the Pandora's Prisoner story, a person returns to earth from 200 years into the future. His mission is to try and understand the meaning of hope. In the future, hope has been lost and self-extermination, suicide to most of us, is the norm. However, he is a member of a group that knows that at one time on earth, hope was prevalent, so he was sent back in time to capture the basis of hope and return it to the future, so it would not be lost for ever. 

This future person struggles with trying to understand why some people have hope and others are in despair.  He makes friends with an invalid and teaches the invalid how to self-heal and heal others in exchange for helping the person from the future to rediscover hope.  The exchange and the dilemma are the essence of Pandora's Prisoner. 

Hopefully, this is a provocative premise if I do say so myself. And I do say so.

Pandora's Prisoner on Amazon.

Some truth. Some fiction. It is up to you to know the difference.

Pandora's Prisoner is based on a series of interviews I had with a professed healer in Arizona. According to his story, he was in an auto accident and confined to a wheelchair for 4 years. He met an alien, a person from another planet, who taught him how to heal himself and heal others including animals. He is now a scratch golfer. I played golf with him.

Scoff if you must, but he is believable and to a certain extent has evidence to support his story. After all, the earth was believed to be flat for a thousand years, and sending a man to the moon and back was just poppycock, not more than 60 years ago. Life on other planets is just not unreasonable, temporarily unfathomable perhaps, but still possible.

My novel is a fictionalized account of this professed healer and his interviews. However, the book has exact excerpts, word for word, from my interviews with him.  The book describes how he supports himself financially using tricks the aliens taught him. 

It is available on Amazon. Some truth. Some fiction. It is up to you to know the difference.

My authors page is 
http://www.amazon.com/Robert-J.-Sherwood/e/BOO3B3IDJ8

Is the "mind" the ultimate healing machine?

 I interviewed a professed healer for this story. You will not believe what he says. In the book, I call this healer Dwight Adams.  He is not a fictional character, only a fictional name.

In a series of taped interviews, Dawson learns that Adams talks to his dog, has cured his own son of cancer and visits regularly with an alien.  Adams tells Dawson that he is not a faith healer, but has discovered a secret healing technique.  Adams lives in a beautiful Arizona home, but has no visible means of financial support. He explains to Dawson that he has been taught investment techniques from an Alien, which allow him to finance his healing activities.

Adams spends his time treating people with terminal diseases for free and eventually shares with Dawson journals that record the experiences of people that Adams has cured.

Dawson and his fiance Jessica, a forensic psychologist, are unsuccessful in showing the Healer is a fraud. After reporting his findings, Dawson is fired. Crawford embarks on a dangerous mission to discredit Dawson and protect the hospital.

Dawson’s path collides with gregarious insurance executive Roger Simpson. Simpson’s firm has insured the hospital and the doctor against litigation. However, Simpson is addicted to a no-holds barred gambling and girls life style and has run up huge debts to casino owners. If Crawford loses the case, Simpson will lose hundreds of millions of dollars and his firm will go bankrupt preventing him from paying his casino debts.  To insure a victory by the hospital, the casino owners conspire with Simpson to kill Dawson so he can not testify at trial.  Dawson is wounded and Thomas Crawford’s brother is killed in a suspicious “hit and run” auto accident.

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An Alien Adventure.

In this David Dawson adventure, Dr. Robert Metzken, a world renowned physician, diagnoses Jack Miller, a young boy, with terminal cancer.  As a last effort to save Jack’s life, Jack’s parents, who have not lost hope, ask the hospital for permission for Dwight Adams, a reputed local Healer, to treat young Jack. For legal reasons, the hospital and Dr. Metzken deny the parent’s request. The boy dies. The boy’s parents sue the powerful hospital and the physician. Dawson is engaged by the Thomas Crawford law firm, counsel to the hospital, to investigate the reputation of Dwight Adams.

 In a series of taped interviews, Dawson learns that Adams talks to his dog, has cured his own son of cancer and visits regularly with an alien.  Adams tells Dawson that he is not a faith healer, but has discovered a secret healing technique.  Adams lives in a beautiful Arizona home, but has no visible means of financial support. He explains to Dawson that he has been taught investment techniques from an Alien, which allow him to finance his healing activities.

Backstory

Dawson is a single, G5 flying, 930 Porsche driving international traveler, and expert witness from Silicon Valley.  Meet him and his team as they dive into yet another adventure they didn’t expect—and a ride they couldn’t have anticipated. Dawson has two partners who work with him  at D&Z Partners:  Dr. Matthew Zimmerman, a Stanford graduate, resident genius and technology wizard; and  Helen Shepherd, a beautiful woman with more common sense and organizational skill than the other two partners combined.

Dawson has made millions in Silicon Valley, and as a result has an enormous catalog of international connections—both governmental and private. His expert witness investigations pull him into intrigue he doesn’t anticipate, and he uses his connections to pull him out. In a Quixotic way (minus the horse), he takes litigation cases that he believes will make a positive difference in the world. His special crusade is protecting American innovation.

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An alien told him how to make money in the stock market.

This story was inspired by a person I interviewed several years ago. He was  a professed healer and claimed to heal people of cancer, among other things. He had no visible means of support and claimed he learned how to make money in the stock market from an alien friend. That's right a person from another planet. I interviewed him for more than 8 hours and wrote Pandora's Prisoner based on this person. I am a renowned skeptic, but he is convincing and has evidence to support his claims. Read the book and form your own conclusions.

I  framed the story around, David Dawson, the not-so-super hero from my other novels. In this Dawson adventure, Dr. Robert Metzken, a world renowned physician, diagnoses Jack Miller, a young boy, with terminal cancer.  As a last effort to save Jack’s life, Jack’s parents, who have not lost hope, ask the hospital for permission for Dwight Adams, a reputed local Healer, to treat young Jack. For legal reasons, the hospital and Dr. Metzken deny the parent’s request. The boy dies. The boy’s parents sue the powerful hospital and the physician. Dawson is engaged by the Thomas Crawford law firm, counsel to the hospital, to investigate the reputation of Dwight Adams. 

A compelling story with a surprise ending. You can purchase the book on Amazon, or buy direct from me and I will personally autograph your copy. Sign up to follow this blog and over the next few weeks, I will reveal  more about this fascinating person the story is based on.

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