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A Promise Not Kept

by Jim Turner

326 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-1207; ISBN 1-4251-3237-5; US$21.84, C$21.84, EUR14.92, £11.28

Would you join a study that could predict the date you*ll die?

About the Book

Jim Turner's A Promise Not Keptfollows Would you join a study that could predict the date you'll die? Would you choose to find out that date? What would you do with that information once you had it? Jim Turner's A Promise Not Kept follows Harry Adkins' journey through the morass of issues that arise when he enrolls in the Healthy Hearts Live Longer study --a study that gives him the choice to find out when his last day will be. Harry Adkins, a successful international businessman with a wife, two kids, and a lover in Japan, opts to get the date. What he does with that information and his decision to tell no one is chronicled in this story of how one man deals with such formidable knowledge. Though-provoking and compelling, A Promise Not Kept allows the reader to experience the joys and sorrows of Harry's quest to outlive the prediction and the ensuing results, and a nagging threat against him and his family by a convicted serial murderer.

About the Author

Jim Turner grew up in western Washington state. Three years of College at the UW Served two years in the US Army… Received a BA in Law through the UW Law School in '53; Graduated from the UW Law School '55… Practiced civil trial law in Seattle area 42 years;. Elected to a 3 year term as Trustee on the King County Bar Association, and later elected as President. Elected to a 3 year term as a Washington State Bar Governor; Created and organized the King County Bar Association; Alternative Dispute Resolution Section; Mayor and Councilperson of the Town of Beaux Arts Village; President International School PTSA; Bellevue, WA; wrote full feature screen play, "Ready All-Row"; 2007 completed Novel, A Promise Not Kept; principal extra one episode of "Northern Exposure."; 55th wedding Anniversary observed August 2007; three children, 6 grandchildren.

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