by Josh Bazell
First published 2009
Peter Brown starts his morning by disarming a robber, then has a steamy elevator encounter with an attractive medical sales rep. His day takes a dark turn when he meets a new patient who knows him from his previous life under a different name. Peter works as a doctor thanks to the Witness Protection Program, but even that cannot shield him from the New Jersey mafia. His former identity as someone with a very different job now threatens everything he has built. Peter must do whatever it takes to keep his patient alive while buying time to outrun death itself. The collision between his medical career and criminal past forces him into a desperate race where both lives hang in the balance.
Genres: mystery, crime, thriller, action
Vibes: dark, fast-paced, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water
Setting: New Jersey
Period: 21st-Century
264 pages · Paperback · Civilização
Content warnings: violence