Join the North Providence Mystery Book Club on Tuesday
August 6, 2019. We will be discussing The Hollow Men by Rob McCarthy.
This is the first book featuring Dr. Harry Kent, who is an ICU doctor who also works
for the London Metropolitan Police.
The synopsis from the publisher’s website is“Meet Dr. Harry
Kent. Former Army medic, hospital registrar, police surgeon, drug addict and
defender of anyone the world would rather brush aside. His critics say he has a
weakness for lost causes. Usually his police
work means minor injuries and mental health assessments. But Solomon Idris’s
case is different. Solomon Idris has taken eight people hostage in a chicken
takeaway, and is demanding a lawyer and a BBC reporter. Harry is sent in to
treat the clearly ill teenager…before the siege goes horribly wrong. When
Solomon’s life is put in danger again from the safety of a critical care ward,
it becomes clear he knows something people will kill to protect. Determined to uncover the secret that drove
the boy to such desperate action, Harry soon realises that someone in the
medical world, someone he may even know, has broken the doctors’ commandment
‘do no harm’ many times over. And now only he stands in the way of them causing
further hurt…”
We will be meeting in the Second Floor Meeting Room at 7:00
pm.
