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Summary and Reviews of White Male Infant by Barbara D'Amato

White Male Infant by Barbara D'Amato

White Male Infant

by Barbara D'Amato
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  • Jun 1, 2002, 336 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Jul 2003, 336 pages
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McSweeny and his wife dearly love their adopted Russian son - but when medical tests indicate that the boy is not Russian they are plunged into the dark, complex world of international adoption. The results threaten to destroy their happiness - and their lives - as they explode a powder keg of political intrigue.

Surgical pathologist Dooley McSweeny and his wife dearly love the son they adopted from Russia four years ago. But when medical tests indicate that their little boy could not possibly have come from Russia, the couple is plunged into the dark, complex, and emotionally fraught world of international adoption. Who is their son? Where did he come from? How did he come to them? The answers to these questions threaten to destroy their marriage, their happiness - and their lives - as they explode a powder keg of political intrigue.

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Chicago Sun-Times
A muckraking thriller that from beginning to end will keep readers gasping with wonder and outrage.

Booklist - Connie Fletcher
The separate strands of this complex but riveting story start coming together when the couple find evidence suggesting their son was not orphaned but kidnapped at the same time the CNN reporter discovers her cameraman brutally slain in their Russian hotel. Another D'Amato stunner.

Kirkus Reviews
Like a contemporary Anne Perry, D'Amato looses the dogs of suspense against an all-too-plausible scenario of epidemic social injustice. The heart-rending, page-turning result is irresistible.

Publishers Weekly
This versatile author has always had the ability to raise goose bumps but in this stand-alone thriller she makes our spines absolutely tingle.

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