Aug 2, 2010
In this thankfully fictionalized look at the guts of a busy hospital we find Peter Brown working as an intern. He is in the witness protection program due to his past involvement with the mob. When a former acquaintance checks into the hospital Peter recounts his path from killer-for-hire to hard-working intern.
Bazell alternates between hilarity, intense violence, and surprising tenderness. Readers will be relieved to know that, while Bazell wrote Beat the Reaper “while completing his internship at a hospital [it was] not at all like the one described in this book”.