in his retirement , in addition to hyde , he has published eight novels : dead end , a police procedural ; assignment : bosnia , a thriller based on the recent war in the balkans ; the shroud , a novel in which an interpol detective deals with an attempt to clone jesus with blood obtained from the shroud of turin ; prescription for death , a medical suspense thriller set in 1931 , in which a young physician is caught up in an insurance scam ; sleeper , where a childs coma baffles her doctors ; max , an alien who leads a so-so professional football team to the super bowl ; fracture , in which an orthopaedic surgeon discovers a substance which will revolutionize fracture treatment ; and the old folks at home ; warehouse them or leave them on the ice floe .