Dr. Cristina LePort was born in Bologna, Italy, where she attended medical school before emigrating to the USA to complete her Internal Medicine residency at Long Island College Hospital in Brooklyn and her Cardiology fellowship at West Los Angeles VA/UCLA. She has been practicing medicine for more than 30 years as Dr. Cristina Rizza. “Dissection: A Medical and Political Thriller,” her first published novel, will be released October 18, 2022. It is a taut thriller with complex characters that combines cutting-edge medical technology with horrific yet still believable terrorist plots. (Amazon, 2022)

“Dissection” – DC heart surgeon Dr. Steven Leeds is suddenly besieged by a handful of complicated heart attack and stroke cases, all caused by a rare arterial injury―a dissection. Before that, all the victims receive innocuous-looking cards announcing: “Your heart attack/stroke will arrive within one hour!” When private detective Kirk Miner and FBI agent Jack Mulville investigate, they immediately suspect Leeds’ former lover, Dr. Silvana Moretti, a brilliant research scientist who harbors a grudge against all the victims. When prominent people in the U.S. government begin to receive these same threatening cards and almost immediately experience these same deadly cardiac emergencies, it falls to the unlikely team of three―the headstrong FBI agent, the gifted private investigator, and the brilliant but conflicted heart surgeon―to find the actual perpetrators and to snuff out a catastrophic plot that only the medically astute can divine.

Dr. Cristina LePort’s story combines the artfully nightmarish scenarios in Vince Flynn’s Mitch Rapp novels with the fast-paced tempo of Robin Cook’s medical thrillers. It features page-turning suspense, action-packed climaxes, and thoughtful character development, set against a believable backdrop of medical science informed by her long career as a cardiologist. Her style, though accessible, is more sophisticated than superficial, and, with strong protagonists on both sides of the gender divide, appeals to both male and female readers.

The Kindle edition goes on sale September 20, 2022.