Dr Knox Author:Peter Spiegelman ?Peter Spiegelman?s Dr. Knox is a bruised wonder of a crime novel. Filled with page-turning intrigue and an L.A. atmosphere so richly rendered you can practically smell the ?eucalyptus and dust,? it is both thrilling and rueful, harrowing and moving. DON'T MISS IT? — ?Megan Abbott, award-winning author of The Fever — From the author of Red Cat an... more »d Thick as Thieves: a gripping new thriller about a medical doctor with a powerful humanitarian impulse, an unhealthy appetite for risk, and a knack for finding himself between a rock and a hard place.
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 bureaucracy. But Knox?s search for the volatile woman who may or may not be the boy?s mother leads him and his friend, a former Special Forces operator, into a labyrinth of human traffickers, Russian mobsters, and corporate security thugs; and squarely into the sights of a powerful, secretive, and utterly ruthless family that threatens to destroy Dr. Knox and everything?and everyone?he holds dear.