The Oath

While investigating the murder of the head of San Francisco's largest HMO, defense attorney Dismas Hardy discovers too many patients are dying--and it looks like it is the hospital that is killing them. This "People(" Page-Turner of the Week pits Hardy and homicide lieutenant Abe Glitsky against each other in a story of bad medicine and hard-hitting justice. Medical malpractice or murder? Glitsky and Hardy take opposite sides of the case-in the newest bestseller from the author of "The Hearing," When an HMO executive is hit by a car during a morning jog through his exclusive San Francisco neighborhood, he has the bad luck to be transported to one of his own hospitals...and winds up dead in his ICU bed. But in spite of the rumors about his company's substandard care, this death appears to be a case of malice, not of malpractice. Lt. Abe Glitsky has strong suspicions about a doctor with opportunity, means, and motives to spare. But working up a case won't be easy.