{"id":26192,"date":"2015-10-29T08:00:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=26192"},"modified":"2015-10-24T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T21:29:15","slug":"beat-the-reaper-by-josh-bazell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/beat-the-reaper-by-josh-bazell\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat the Reaper<\/I> by Josh Bazell"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"beat<\/a>What would you do if\u00a0you lived a double life? If you had the option to better yourself and change your life for the better, would you take it, no matter\u00a0the cost? How far would you be willing to go for\u00a0revenge? All of these\u00a0questions and more are\u00a0what\u00a0the characters\u00a0in\u00a0Josh Bazell’s\u00a0Beat the Reaper<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0deal with on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

Beat the Reaper<\/a><\/strong><\/em> begins by introducing us to Dr. Peter Brown, an intern at Manhattan Catholic, on his way to\u00a0work when he is held up at gunpoint. Brown\u00a0springs into action, showing a vast knowledge of martial arts and combat skills that are so\u00a0tailored to seriously main and kill that they couldn’t simply have been learned by taking classes at the local gym; they must have been put to actual use.\u00a0How did this\u00a0seemingly normal man\u00a0gain these skills? The mystery begins.<\/p>\n

Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa,\u00a0used to be\u00a0a contract killer\/hitman for the mafia, a relationship that began in his teen years after the brutal murder of his grandparents and one that ends with him having to join Witness Protection when one job\u00a0turns his life upside down\u00a0and\u00a0ultimately leads to Brown\u00a0tossing his best friend\u00a0out of a 6th floor window. In WITSEC, Brown decides to become a doctor to honor the legacy of his grandfather, a job that, so far, has not put him into\u00a0contact with anyone in\u00a0his previous life\u00a0until the day he walks into patient Eddie Squillante aka Nicholas LoBrutto’s room and finds himself face-to-face with a man dying of cancer who demands to be saved or he will reveal Brown’s new identity, thus guaranteeing a group of other\u00a0hitmen to come after him. Brown is forced to reconcile the sudden thrusting of his two lives together and decide how far he is willing to go to get what he wants.<\/p>\n

This book is Josh Bazell’s debut novel and his background as a physician shows through in the intricately detailed medical\u00a0digressions and footnotes that populate the book. If footnotes throw you off, don’t be worried. Bazell has molded Brown’s character into a perfect mix of the medical and the criminal that the descriptions of medical issues come across as the well-articulated discussions of a compartmentalized and highly knowledgeable individual. This darky humorous, suspenseful crime novel will have you wondering where Brnwa ends and Brown begins, a dichotomy that will either lead to life or death for this compelling main character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What would you do if\u00a0you lived a double life? If you had the option to better yourself and change your life for the better, would you take it, no matter\u00a0the cost? How far would you be willing to go for\u00a0revenge? All of these\u00a0questions and more are\u00a0what\u00a0the characters\u00a0in\u00a0Josh Bazell’s\u00a0Beat the Reaper\u00a0deal[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1,8],"tags":[890,246,3178,3180,1169,3179],"class_list":["post-26192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reference","category-staff-picks","tag-crime","tag-death","tag-hitman","tag-hospital","tag-medicine","tag-mobsters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-6Os","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26192"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26226,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26192\/revisions\/26226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}