Silent Samaritan

by James Tucker

This is a made for TV story. The action starts on page one and never lets up. The story starts in the Emergency Room with a trauma case that sets the stage, and has shades of the TV series ER, and ends in a restaurant.

Dr. Kensey Shaw is the MD in the ER who gets to hear a confession from a patient whom she thinks is dying because when she gets shoved out of the way by a senior resident, he is, for all appearances, well dead. We find out that not only he is not dead but he is about to take Kensey on quite a ride.

Tucker is a physician so the medial aspect of the story is spot on. Turns out he is also quite able to spin a good police and who don’ it  story.  Kensey’s “dead” patient, Manny Romero. has convinced her that he has turned a new leaf, you know all that near death stuff, and wants to make things straight. His partner, Mike Dombrowski, has other ideas for the both Kensey and Manny. Kensey gets into jams that might do ordinary mortals in, but somehow she comes through. She makes choices that will have the reader shaking their head and wondering why. There are scenes that will make you cringe and others that will make you smile.

This is a story of murder and medicine and is well told. I am not going to give secrets away, but this story enough more twists and turns to keep you guessing right up to the end. It really hard to put down, good read.