Beat the Reaper: A Novel - Softcover

Bazell, Josh

3.78

16,503 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0316073768 ISBN 13: 9780316073769

Publisher: Back Bay Books, 2010

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Paperback. Pub Date :2010-1-1 Pages: 300 Publisher:. Hachette Dr Peter Brown is an intern at Manhattans worst hospital. with a talent for medicine. a shift from hell. and a past hedprefer to keep hidden Whether its a. blocked circumflex artery ora plan to land a massive malpractice suit. he knows what evil lurksin the hearts of men. Pietro Bearclaw Brnwna is a hitman for the mob. with a geniusfor violence. a well-earned fear of sharks. and an overly closerelationship with the Federal Witness Relocation Program. Morelikely to leave a trail of dead gangsters than a molecule ofevidence. hes the last person you want to see in your hospitalroom. Nicholas LoBrutto. aka Eddy Squillante. is Dr. Browns newpatient. with three months to live and a very strange idea: thatPeter Brown and Pietro Brnwa might-just might-be the same person ... Now. with the mob. the government. and death its...

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Publishers are given to attempts to whip up excitement about debut novels (it’s their job, after all), and often such fireworks splutter out all too quickly. But that’s not going to happen with Josh Bazell’s debut thriller Beat the Reaper, which is (it has to be said) quite as impressive as his publishers are trumpeting – in fact, if this book doesn’t take the crime and thriller world by storm, there's no justice. What marks the book out from the rest of an increasingly overcrowded field is its vibrant, glittering prose – streaked through with a mordant wit (highlighted by a series of pithy – and highly entertaining – footnotes; an unusual element in the thriller genre)

The plot is highly original. Peter Brown is a young Manhattan intern who is not all he seems to be. He has a past – and as any reader of crime novels knows – the past never stays buried for long. Peter has had an edgy run-in with a mugger and a more congenial elevator one-to-one with a female pharmaceutics rep. But his most significant encounter is to be with a new hospital patient, Nicholas LoBrutto – a man who knows the truth behind Peter’s artificially contrived fa�ade: the young intern is, in fact, in the Witness Protection program, and he remains in the gunsights of some unpleasant New Jersey heavies. And things are about to get very hot for both Peter and LoBrutto. Josh Bazell, as Beat the Reaper, demonstrates, is the real deal, and the auguries for this debut are very good. If he can just sustain this level of invention and energy thoughout that difficult second novel... --Barry Forshaw

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`Beat the Reaper is way cool and ice cold. A ferocious read.'

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