First, Do No Harm - Couverture rigide

Karp, Larry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 159058130X ISBN 13 : 9781590581308

Editeur : Poisoned Pen Pr, 2004

Synopsis

Unusual book

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Martin Firestone can't figure why his father, the eccentric painter Leo Firestone, is throwing a fit. All Martin did was tell his dad he'd been accepted to medical school. Then Leo tells Martin a story about his own father, Dr. Samuel Firestone, an extraordinarily gifted doctor and a living legend in the small city of Hobart, NJ. And a man with a serious character flaw. During the summer of 1943, while Leo worked as Samuel's extern, he witnessed some highly questionable behavior. Illegal abortions, supplying heroin to an addict, black-market pharmaceuticals, babies sold to adoptive parents - all in a day's work for Samuel Firestone, M.D. When Leo decided his father was covering up a murder, he and his girlfriend, stage-struck Harmony, followed a trail of clues into the Fleischmann Scrapyard. There, they ran afoul of Samuel's longtime nemesis. By the time Leo realized he and Harmony were in far over their sixteen-year-old heads, it was too late to bail. But there are loose threads in Leo's story. Martin picks them up, and, sixty years after the fact, goes snooping in Hobart. And like his father, he comes away with a whole lot more junk than he had bargained for.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A significant number of antipsychotic medications are being surreptitiously administered 'off-label' to residents suffering from dementia in a seniors' home. A local physician comes under suspicion as hospital staff and police investigate the incidents. Maggie Keiller, principal of the local high school, and her husband, Derek Sloan, become involved when one of her students, a patient of that same physician, dies of a drug overdose while in hospital. As she probes further, Maggie and the physician are both targeted by someone unknown, who sabotages their cars to explode when the engine is started. Both narrowly escape a horrifying death, but another person is not so fortunate. As events hurtle toward a climax, Maggie and Derek face increasing danger, not knowing who the true culprit is. When the deranged killer makes a final, frenzied attempt on her life, Maggie is caught totally off guard. This riveting thriller closely examines the primary duty of every doctor:- First, do no harm.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Poisoned Pen Pr
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 159058130X
• ISBN 13: 9781590581308
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible