Barry Mink

Anna Rashnikov Barry Mink

This is the second book in the Dr. Ben David series. Dr. David is a world famous sports medicine physician who has found amazing methods to enhance athletic performance in legal and safe ways. In the first book of this series, "A Second Chance" he turns the performance of baseball in totally new directions with his scientific knowledge and methods. However, in this book he encounters a rare challenge with one of his star athletes. Douglas Malone, an American Olympic cross country skier and biathlete, gets entangled with a Russian woman who is also a world class biathlete, Anna Rashnikov. She has the unique history of being an assassin for her father, a crime boss in Minsk Russia. She has killed ten men before she was fifteen years old. The two athletes have an adventure together which ends up as a catastrophic international incident at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics.