About me
T.D. SEVERIN is an internationally renowned professor, physician, surgeon, and award-winning author of medical suspense, who has been publishing both fiction and non-fiction since 1994. His writing has appeared in national and regional magazines/journals around the world, while his first novel, Deadly Vision, was an award winner at the SEAK National Medical Fiction Writing Competition. Dr. Severin’s wellness book on the fusion of eastern and western medicine, TriEnergetics, has been published in multiple languages, and now enters its 4th edition.
T.D. Severin, has been named one of the Nation’s Best Ophthalmologists by Newsweek Magazine, and has been honored to receive the prestigious Telly Award, the Oscars of public access television, for his work on medical television programming.
T.D. lives with his wife, and two pups in the San Francisco Bay Area and Florida, where he is currently at work on his next medical thriller. A former radio disc jockey, he also runs the heavy rock record label Ripple Music: www.ripple-music.com.
Praise for 'Deadly Vision'
See what readers are saying about the book!
“Deadly Vision is a gripping novel of suspense ingeniously plotted. Dr. Severin writes with an expert’s hand in virtual reality and medicine, creating a unique, intriguing and intelligent medical/techno thriller that blew me away from its opening page.”
Robert Dugoni, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Jury Master and The Tracy Crosswhite Series
"A Blockbuster! This gripping novel grabs you on page one and never lets up! Dr. Severin's storytelling is seductive; it compels us to understand the intricacies of mysterious medical issues and the unique world of cyberspace, a powerful formula that leaves our brains buzzing with awe! A rollercoaster ride of suspense. This book is as provocative as they come! It should easily be a best-seller!"
Robert Litman, M.D., critically acclaimed author of the medical thrillers Allergy Shots and The Treblinka Virus
"An idea so powerful, unique and riveting that I'm shivering! Tension builds steadily with exceptional crafting. Vivid characters. Intriguing, compelling premise. Virtual reality and medicine: unique, timely. The hero physician plagued by a tribunal of horrors; hallucinations, big bad medicine and big bad government. Absolutely superior work! It hooked me!"
Kathleen Dougherty, best-selling author of Moth to the Flame and Double Vision
"Groundbreaking! A brand-new fresh voice. With this novel, TD Severin breathes new life into the medical/techno thriller, tearing down the boundaries and creating a whole new genre of scientific suspense. A non-stop, terrifying book! Timely and intensely compelling in its examination of technology and medical ethics. Intriguing characters, devilish plot and head-first, non-stop action! I can already see the movie and it will be very, very hot! Look out Robin Cook, there's a new doctor in town and he means business!"
Smadar Hansen, Actress (The Usual Suspects, Nash Bridges) and screenwriter of Do or Die and Stock Car Dreams
“Dr Severin’s Deadly Vision is one of the best techno-thrillers I have read. He may be the new, improved Michael Crichton. This fast-paced novel smoothly combines the author’s fluency in both the medical field and the science of computer technology to escort the reader into the expanding world of virtual reality. Add to that some very surprising twists, well-developed and quirky characters, Machiavellian politics, corporate espionage and murder and you have a novel the reader doesn’t want to put down. A first-rate thriller. I was highly entertained.”
Janet M. Bank, Senior Editor, The Pen Cushion
"Fascinating premise! Riveting, scary, powerful and dynamic. Just the right mixture of creativity and expertise. This novel is very hot."
Mimi Albert, critically acclaimed author of Skirts and Second Story Man
“We are intrigued with mysteries of the body and mind. In the American landscape, we have explored this fascination through the works of Chandler, Hammett, Grafton, Spillane, Clancy, and Macdonald. TD Severin's Deadly Vision is an intense, modern twist upon this exploration, cut from the same cloth of the American literary tradition that precedes it.”
SV Brown (author of Carnival Songs)
"Terrific! Fast action, surprises, great complications. Very exciting stuff."
James N. Frey, Edgar Award Nominated author of The Long Way to Die
"Excellent! Dynamic action and an impressive eye for minute and telling detail. The characters are individuals, not puppets. A distinct voice. The setting is excellent with strong description. Wonderful conflict and great action!"
Jacqueline Simon, finalist National Magazine Award for Fiction, winner Texas Writer Recognition award
"Memorable! Interesting premise. Terrific details and story about the duality of existence and virtual reality. Intensely visual. Excellent!"
Venkatesh Kulkarni, award-winning author of Naked in Deccan, Winner of the American Book Award and Chairperson of the World Literature Center
Reading Soundtrack
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Prologue
Thursday, October 12, 4:59 p.m.
Robert Chan froze in place, staring at the shadows in his hallway.
From the bedroom where he stood, Chan couldn’t see the shadows’ origin, just the elliptical darkness, spreading across the walls, creeping down the hall. As the sun descended beyond the distant Golden Gate Bridge, a chill seized the air, but Chan didn’t feel it. His eyes were fixed on the hallway, studying the growing shadows, searching for signs of movement, or a flicker.
A sign they came from something alive.
Shadows had always terrified Chan. As a child, long after his parents had gone to sleep, he’s lie motionless in bed, his face half-hidden by the blankets, staring at the ceiling. Moonlight, filtering through the branches scratching outside his window, cast a dance of light and darkness above him. Lurking within this specter of shadows, he’d see the spirits of his grandmother’s tales, the kuei-shen — the phantoms of the deceased trapped between the world of the living and the dead. Too frightened to move, he’d lay immobilized, watching as the shape-shifting kuei transformed, taking the forms of lions and dragons. He’d see the kuei-shen as they descended upon him, feel them as they entered his flesh, melting into his soul. The chill of their deathly presence within.
He’d carried those visions throughout his adult life.
Still, no number of childhood nightmares could prepare him for what he faced now.
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