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Oath: A Novel
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Oath: A Novel Hardcover. - 2002

by Lescroart, John T

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People magazine crowns him "a master." The San Francisco Chronicle calls his bestselling novels "compulsively readable." And Larry King hails his legal thrillers as "spine-tingling." In The Oath, John Lescroart pits defense attorney Dismas Hardy and homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky against each other in the most dangerous case either has ever faced.

When the head of San Francisco's largest HMO dies in his own hospital, no one doubts it is anything but the result of massive injuries inflicted by a random hit-and-run car accident. But the autopsy soon tells a different story-an overdose of potassium killed him, and the attending physician Eric Kensing becomes the prime suspect in a high-profile homicide.

Abe Glitsky, though hindered by the inept bunglings of two politically appointed cops assigned to the investigation, quickly sets his sights on Kensing. Desperate and in need of an attorney, Kensing turns to Dismas Hardy for his defense. But as the pressure mounts to indict Kensing, Hardy goes on the offensive, believing that the murder had little to do with his client, and everything to do with business. Hardy knows that all is not well with the HMO, and makes a terrifying discovery: too many patients have been dying, many of them victims of murder-and it looks like it is the hospital that is killing them.

His own marriage tested and his family strained as he struggles to save his client, Hardy must uncover a twisting conspiracy of avarice and violence that takes the lives it is sworn to save. A timely and gripping novel that puts lives-and a long-standing friendship-at grave risk, The Oath is John Lescroart at his galvanizing best.

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New York: Dutton / Penguin. Vg/Vg Faint Edgewear To Dj. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 408.. 2002. 1st Printing. Hardcover..
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  • Title Oath: A Novel
  • Author Lescroart, John T
  • Binding Hardcover.
  • Edition 1st Printing
  • Condition Used - Vg/Vg Faint Edgewear To Dj. Pages Clean & Tight. Pages: 408.
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dutton / Penguin, New York
  • Date 2002
  • Bookseller's Inventory # MASTER322385I
  • ISBN 9780525945765 / 0525945768
  • Weight 1.52 lbs (0.69 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.36 x 6.3 x 1.3 in (23.77 x 16.00 x 3.30 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Legal stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001047055
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Medical malpractice or murder? Glitsky and Hardy take opposite sides of the case-in the newest bestseller from the author of The Hearing.When an HMO executive is hit by a car during a morning jog through his exclusive San Francisco neighborhood, he has the bad luck to be transported to one of his own hospitals...and winds up dead in his ICU bed. But in spite of the rumors about his company's substandard care, this death appears to be a case of malice, not of malpractice. Lt. Abe Glitsky has strong suspicions about a doctor with opportunity, means, and motives to spare. But working up a case won't be easy.

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