Life Blood

MorganJames, a filmmaker, is unable to have a baby so she decides to do ashort film on people who adopt. She finds that the process is long,drawn-out and tedious, but then she hears of some women who recievedhealthy, white babies in just a few months. She sets out toinvestigate the adoption agency and from there it is as if Hooverfollowed a formula for bizzare human experiment novels. There is theobiligatory vague person wandering around the doctors complex, themysterious doctor who travels back forth between Central America andNew York and Morgan, who upon discovering that her cousin is in theclutches of this madman, immediately goes to South America to resuceher, even though she has no proof that that is where her cousin is.It is so predictable that you can almost finish writing it for himafter a certain point in the book. Some of the things that he has hischaracters doing are so stupid you want to slap them.