Peter Abrahams 
Nerve Damage 

Renowned sculptor Roy Valois receives the worst news since learning of his adored wife Delia’s death in South America fifteen years ago. His doctor tells him he’s dyingand a morbid curiosity about how he’ll be remembered inspires Roy, with the help of a local computer geek, to hack into a newspaper’s system to read his prewritten obituary. But the death notice includes a small discrepancy about his late wifeand by calling the mistake to the attention of the surprised obit writer, Roy has inadvertently sealed an innocent man’s doom.Suddenly Roy has a mission: to uncover the truth about the woman he can’t stop lovingsecrets guarded by powerful forces who believe murder is an acceptable price for keeping them buried. With his disease-ravaged body’s final betrayal rapidly approaching, Roy must somehow stay alive long enough to find the answers: Who was Delia? How did she die? Why did she die?Did she die?