To Cure The Humans! - Paperback

by Douglas Lewis (Author)

After wrecking his car on the way to work, Dr. Benjamin Cotter's day gets worse when he is abducted by Cyril, an alien bounty hunter. Cyril has landed on Earth in pursuit of Peter, a resourceful fugitive alien who just happens to possess a device (the BAT) than can cure any disease in any species. When Peter innocently uses the BAT on humans, he draws the wrath of dangerous and powerful adversaries - a pharmaceutical start up, a major health insurance corporation, and a super-secret governmental agency. Their attempts to capture Peter and steal the BAT are thwarted when Peter receives help from a cynical liberal-arts major administrative assistant and her retired steel-worker father. When Dr. Cotter escapes Cyril's clutches, he joins forces with Peter. But in the end it takes a more powerful force to save the BAT - and to cure the humans!

Author Biography

Douglas Lewis grew up in Ft. Worth, Texas, where his sense of humor was honed by being raised in a middle-class family, attending public schools, and being told at a young age that his hometown was #3 on the list of Soviet nuclear targets. He was first published in high school, where his dark, ironic, angsty poetry was included in the school's yearly literary magazine. Flush with royalty money, he attended Texas Christian University, where he graduated in 1984 with a degree in biology, a minor in philosophy, and unwarranted optimism. Four years later, Douglas graduated from The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - internationally recognized as a medical school with a name that seems a bit too wordy. For well over four years, he has written and performed stand up comedy. By 2012, his three children had more-or-less reached adulthood and, taking advantage of the time he used to spend fielding calls from upset school administrators, he began writing To Cure the Humans. He lives and works in Austin, Texas, where he can still occasionally be found onstage performing stand up, when they let him.