ExtraLife, Inc. by Kfir Luzzatto

I received this book free to review from Netgalley. It really sounded interesting from the description - a doctor discovers a cure for cancer, tries to get a patent, people related to the case are dying mysteriously - not from cancer either. Then, I began reading the book. I almost quit reading it right away. The wording is incredibly awkward. It just sounds wrong. So, I looked online and saw good reviews. That made me wonder if the author had friends writing good reviews for a poor book, which annoys me, so I went on and read the book to find out. Actually, the story, once I decided to ignore the rather atrocious writing, is an intriguing mystery/thriller. It had some unexpected twists as Richard, a patent lawyer in Israel, hired by David Wolfson, a doctor who has supposedly found a cure for cancer, begins to find anomalies that cannot be explained in their case and then, people close to the case begin to turn up dead. When I read the Meet the Author section, I learned that English is not his first language. That explains why the wording is so awkward and wrong sounding. I think it would have been a better story if he had gotten a co-author or super-editor or someone who could have fixed his wording so that it sounded better. So, good story, but not great writing.