

Yet, neither his education nor years of experience as a physician avail him in finding a straightforward explanation.

Lowell agrees to help, initially out of scientific curiosity. He promises Lowell a huge sum of money to save his lieutenant’s life or, barring that, to discover the nature of his inexplicable paralysis and what - or who - is responsible for it. Ricori’s most trusted associate is afflicted with a mysterious ailment that has left him catatonic and Ricori fearful for the first time in his life. Lowell must grapple when the notorious gangster Julian Ricori pays him a visit. This is precisely the conundrum with which Dr. But what if there is no rational cause? What then?

By nature and by training, he is predisposed to look for the rational causes behind even the most seemingly irrational behaviors and events. Lowell is a man of science - a medical doctor and world renowned expert in the field of abnormal psychology.
