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    Beat the Reaper (Paperback) By (author) Josh Bazell

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    Short Description for Beat the Reaper Peter Brown is a young Manhattan hospital intern with an unusual past that is just about to catch up with him. His morning begins with the quick disarming of a would-be mugger, topped off by a visit with a new patient - and from there Peter's day is going to get a whole lot worse and a whole lot weirder.
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    Title
    Beat the Reaper
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Josh Bazell
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 320
    Width: 153 mm
    Height: 233 mm
    Thickness: 24 mm
    Weight: 436 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9780434019236
    ISBN 10: 0434019232
    Classifications
    Dewey: 813.6
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F1.1
    BISAC category code: FIC000000
    BICMainSubject: FA
    Publisher
    Cornerstone
    Imprint name
    William Heinemann Ltd
    Publication date
    05 February 2009
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Biographical note
    Josh Bazell is a doctor and novelist. He has a BA in writing from Brown University, where he was awarded the Clarkson-Collins Prize in American Marine History, and an MD from Columbia. He has worked as a screenwriter, and while in medical school investigated suspicious deaths for the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York. He is currently a resident at the University of California, San Francisco, and is writing his second novel.
    Promotional headline
    A literate, dark and original thriller - Grey's Anatomy meets The Sopranos meets Grosse Pointe Blank.
    Review text
    The past comes knocking for a physician with a fistful of secrets.Medical resident Bazell opens his debut novel with a bone-crunching interlude between Manhattan ER doctor Peter Brown and a mugger whom he beats senseless, then treats for injuries. Brown soon confesses that his real name is Pietro Brnwa. He's a former hit man whose lethal trade drove him into the witness-protection program, where he reinvented himself as a pill-popping trauma physician. "It's a weird curse, when you think about it," says the killer turned doc. "We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers." The past catches up with Brown when a terminal patient at the hospital recognizes him as the mob assassin called "Bearclaw." The patient threatens to out Brown if he does not work to save the man's life. Bazell's profane, hyperactive novel is readable and fun, and no fan of shoot-'em-ups or medical dramas can afford to miss it. Among the book's highlights is a riotous set of doctor's rounds that find Brown making out with a cancer patient, chasing down a wheelchair-bound fugitive and suffering a particularly vile needle stick.A wildly funny mashup between genres that makes ER and St. Elsewhere look tame. (Kirkus Reviews)
    Main description
    Trade paperback. Peter Brown is in the witness protection programme, but he's been recognised by an old friend, and now the New Jersey mob is after him again. Cross between "Grey's Anatomy" and "The Sopranos".