| Witch-Hunt: Based on a True Story Contributor(s): Leichter, Larry R. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0595618510 ISBN-13: 9780595618514 Publisher: iUniverse OUR PRICE: $32.36 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2000 Annotation: The hospital chief of staff spearheads a witch-hunt against a competing physician. After first being on trial at the hospital based on a fraudulent review, the doctor finds himself on trial for the murder of the chief of staff, found decapitated and disemboweled in the parking garage of his mistress's condo. A vicious prosecutor and evil judge result in the doctor's attorney, his former Harvard roommate and his new found love, the beautiful daughter of a patient killed by the chief of staff during surgery, hatching a plot to try and save him. Wounded by the real killer and comatose in the ICU, his lawyer arrested for her shooting, only the jailed physician knows the real killer is on the way to the ICU to finish the job, and only his girlfriend, unguarded and comatose in the ICU can clear his name. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 1.19" H x 6" W x 9" (1.88 lbs) 480 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
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| Publisher Description: The hospital chief of staff spearheads a witch-hunt against a competing physician. After first being on trial at the hospital based on a fraudulent review, the doctor finds himself on trial for the murder of the chief of staff, found decapitated and disemboweled in the parking garage of his mistress's condo. A vicious prosecutor and evil judge result in the doctor's attorney, his former Harvard roommate and his new found love, the beautiful daughter of a patient killed by the chief of staff during surgery, hatching a plot to try and save him. Wounded by the real killer and comatose in the ICU, his lawyer arrested for her shooting, only the jailed physician knows the real killer is on the way to the ICU to finish the job, and only his girlfriend, unguarded and comatose in the ICU can clear his name. |