
Thriller
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Adam Knox comes from a long line of patrician Connecticut doctors -- a line he broke to serve with an NGO in the war-torn Central African Republic. His attempt to protect his patients there from a brutal militia ended in disaster and disgrace, and now he runs a clinic near Los Angeles's Skid Row, making ends meet by making house calls -- cash only, no questions asked -- on those too famous or too criminal to seek other medical care. When a young boy is abandoned at his clinic, Knox is determined to find the boy's family and save him from the not-so-tender mercies of the child welfare…
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5 editions- Other · English · 2017Quercus · 352 pages · 9781782066958
- Other · English · 2017Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · 368 pages · 9780307951304
- Other · English · 2016Quercus · 368 pages · 9781782066934
- Other · English · 2016Quercus · 368 pages · 9781782066927
- Other · English · 2016607 pages · 9781410494344
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