Paula Jacobs, an attractive and imaginative medical investigator, is willing to risk her life in order to discover the truth. Disguised as a Kurdish woman, she is secretly led by two Peshmerga female warriors, and climbs up the Kurdish mountains to obtain valuable information from the Kurdish leader. Armed with this knowledge, she travels to Beirut where she gets shot by her enemies and, bleeding, manages to escape on a speedboat to Cyprus and from there, home to San Francisco. Poisonous Medicine is a medical fiction, mystery thriller, that addresses the unethical buying and selling of HMOs and their doctors as chattel for huge profits. This book is a prequel to a previous publication, Preemptive Mayhem, and is the first volume of a trilogy.