The Pain Killers

by John Avanzato

Overview

Cancer patients from St. Matt's Hospital are turning up dead all over lower Manhattan and a rogue pain management specialist is suspected. A ruthless financial adviser known as The Sommelier, with a taste for the high life, scams St. Matt's Hospital out of millions of dollars by playing three card monte with their investments. Brought to the point of ruination, the hospital administration takes desperate measures to recover their losses. These events trigger violent reprisals involving life and death. With the help of friends, John Cesari decides to take action. New Jersey will never be the same after Cesari comes to town.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798855604306
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	02/16/2022
Series:	John Cesari , #13
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

John Avanzato was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. He attended Fordham University undergraduate eventually going on to the SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine. He is a practicing gastroenterologist in upstate New York where he resides with his wife of more than thirty years. Hostile Hospital was his first foray into the world of creative writing. He now has now published fourteen full-length novels which have been well-received and has established himself as an author of medical thrillers revolving around the exploits of his singularly unique main character, John Cesari, a former gangster turned doctor. Avanzato affectionately refers to his works as being a new type of genre, the Gastro-Noir and his protagonist as being the "James Bond" of colonoscopy. Inspired by authors like Tom Clancy, David Baldacci, Mickey Spillane, John Grisham, and Lee Child, Avanzato writes about strong but flawed heroes.