First, Do No Harm
$25.20
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2011
Summary
The past comes rearing up to bite the next generation when a son digs too deep into his family’s past.
Martin Firestone can’t figure why his father, the eccentric painter Leo Firestone, is throwing a fit. All Martin did was tell his dad he’d been accepted to medical school.
Then, Leo tells Martin a story about his own father, Dr. Samuel Firestone, an extraordinarily gifted doctor and a living legend in the small city of Hobart, NJ, but a man with a serious character flaw. Duri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590581667 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590581660 |
| Author: | Larry Karp |
| Publisher: | Sourcebooks, Inc |
| Imprint: | Poisoned Pen Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2011 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
A compelling, well-researched mystery wrapped in the methods and politics of 1940s medicine, First, Do No Harm traces a dark family secret three generations back to the origin of the malady. Karp’s capable eye captures the physician’s imperative, and how the rules of disease and corruption play out between fathers and sons. * Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times best-selling author of Orphan X and The Nowhere Man *
Larry Karp
Larry Karp, Casey’s father, has written long and short nonfiction, restored and collected antique music boxes, and practiced perinatal medicine. He left medical work in 1994 to write mystery novels full-time. The RagTime Traveler is the fourth book of an historical-mystery series, following The Ragtime Kid, The King of Ragtime, and The Ragtime Fool.
A self-described New Yorker, Larry and his wife Myra have lived in Seattle for 46 years. They have two grown children and one grandchild.
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