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Bill Powers
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Skills: Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Reading/Literary Event, Press/Media Interview
Bill lives in Morris County with his wife, daughter and his cat, Octavian. He worked in pharmaceutical R&D (Johnson & Johnson) for 26 years, rising to the position of Vice President of Global Preclinical Development. In various management roles, Bill led groups of scientist in the US, Europe and Asia; administered multi-million dollar budgets and was instrumental in the successful development of several marketed pharmaceutical products.
Bill has a Ph.D. in Toxicology from the University of Cincinnati and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology. Now that he has moved away from his industrial career, he plans to aggressively pursue his passion of being a fictional author.
Bill Powers' books
The Pharm House
Author Bill Powers debut title, "THE PHARM HOUSE" shares Dr. Nicholas Harding's story involving the pharmaceutical industry and malpractice of epic proportions. This is a modern mystery and whodunit tightly corked in the prescription bottle of greed, murder and corruption and drug-peddling.
The protagonist, Nicholas Harding, is struggling to raise a young daughter as a single parent and stumbles across a global plot to take over the pharmaceutical company where he works.
Mysterious deaths occur, including Nick's mentor. Nicholas' career, family and life are threatened. Nick is kind of like Alan Gregory in the Stephen White stories, just a guy trying to get through life and take of his family, but things (bad people) keep getting in the way.
The Pharm House has been named a Finalist in the Medical Thriller category of the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards.
The Torch is Passed: A Harding Family Story
First there was The Pharm House, Finalist in the Medical Thriller category of the 2014 National Indie Excellence Awards, where readers met Nicholas Harding and his daughter, Andrea. Now comes the second Harding Family story. In the exciting new thriller, The Torch is Passed, Andrea has just graduated college and her world is turned upside down when her father, Nicholas, and her uncle, Michael, are shot in a surprising and puzzling attack. As the only family other than her paternal grandmother, it falls to Andrea to not only investigate who would want to kill her father and uncle, but also to oversee Harding Industries.
The youngest Harding soon finds herself surrounded by a bevy of intriguing new friends and helpers after she is also violently attacked, forcing her to kill both would-be assassins. Suspicion is cast on a short list of family friends and colleagues, including Don Marshall, with a shady past including an incident that also involved Andrea’s father. Then there is Marcus Ricci, widely believed to have ties to the New Jersey mob. Also on the suspect list are the Oakes brothers, Carlton and Jefferson, who run Oakes Industries along with their silent partner and cousin, New Jersey state senator Schuyler Colfax. They recently made a seemingly irrational attempt to purchase Harding Industries and were rebuffed by Nicholas.
Along with her new allies, including an abrasive, but loyal, attorney and an eccentric southerner with more money than God and an intriguing background in international espionage, Andrea urgently seeks answers why anyone would want to kill her entire family— grows up along the way and seeks her revenge.