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Overview
In one of the most unique and powerfully realized debut novels of the decade, Craig Holden creates a page-turning drama that is both emotionally shattering and harrowingly plausible.When a fatally burned victim is brought into the Morgantown General Hospital emergency room, a young doctor's life is changed irrevocably. For Dr. Adrian Lancaster, the arrival of "John Doe" is only the first of a bizarre and bloody series of events that will force him to relive his violent past and put him on the run. On the road and underground, accused and accuser, Lancaster's only hope for survival lies in facing the terrifying truth.
A ponytailed doctor tries to sleep in the walk-in clinic of a small midwestern city--and forget the image of a burn victim he treated earlier in the day. But for Dr. Adrian Lancaster there will be no rest, not now or tomorrow. The killing has begun. And he has no choice but to run--into the arms of his weakness and disgrace, into the past and a corrupt plot.
Synopsis
In one of the most unique and powerfully realized debut novels of the decade, Craig Holden creates a page-turning drama that is both emotionally shattering and harrowingly plausible.
When a fatally burned victim is brought into the Morgantown General Hospital emergency room, a young doctor's life is changed irrevocably. For Dr. Adrian Lancaster, the arrival of "John Doe" is only the first of a bizarre and bloody series of events that will force him to relive his violent past and put him on the run. On the road and underground, accused and accuser, Lancaster's only hope for survival lies in facing the terrifying truth.
Publishers Weekly
An emergency room physician and former drug addict becomes a murder suspect when junkie friends turn up dead in Holden's debut thriller. (July)