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'in Stephenson, Vonnegut May Have His First True Protégé' Washington Post '[a] Thriller From [an] Ex-doctor About A Spate Of Mysterious Deaths In A Beleaguered Hospital. Insightful On Addiction And Doctors' Lives, It Reads Almost Like A Comic Medical Memoir - With Murder Thrown In 'the Bookseller The Year Is 1999. Returning To Practice After A Suspension For Stealing Opioids, A Young Scottish Doctor Takes The Only Job He Can Find: A Post As A Senior House Officer In The Struggling East London Hospital Of St Luke's. Amid The Maelstrom Of Sick Patients, Over-worked Staff And Underfunded Wards A Darker Secret Soon Declares Itself: Too Many Patients Are Dying. Which Of The Medical Professionals Our Protagonist Has Encountered Is Behind The Murders? And Can Our Unnamed Narrator's Version Of The Events Be Trusted?