Jailhouse Doc
Dr. John Cesari, former mobster turned gastroenterologist, finds himself on the wrong end of the law. A felony conviction lands him in Riker’s Island, one of the country’s most dangerous correctional facilities, doing community service.
Fighting to survive, he becomes trapped in the web of a vicious criminal gang dealing in drugs and human flesh.
A seemingly unrelated and mysterious death of a college student in Greenwich Village thrusts Cesari into the middle of the action, and forced to take sides, his options are to either cooperate or die. Which will it be?
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About the Author
John Avanzato grew up in the Bronx. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in biology from Fordham University, he went on to earn his medical degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo, School of Medicine. He is currently a board certified gastroenterologist in Geneva, New York, where he lives with his wife of thirty years. Inspired by authors like Tom Clancy, John Grisham, and Lee Child, John writes about strong but flawed heroes. His first five novels, Hostile Hospital, Prescription for Disaster, Temperature Rising, Claim Denied and The Gas Man Cometh have been well received. Jailhouse Doc is the sixth novel in the Cesari series.
