Dimensions
155 x 234 x 33mm
Parnassus, a healthcare provider, is on the edge of bankruptcy. Its CEO, Tim Markham, has just been killed. Two facts apparently not connected. But Dr Eric Kensing, the doctor in charge when Markham died, is worried enough to ask lawyer Dismas Hardy to represent him. He's right to be. He had many reasons to hate his boss, who died, it's soon apparent, not of the effects of the hit and run accident, but from an overdose of potassium in intensive care.
Hardy knows that arrest or indictment would destroy Kensing's career. From what some say, it's not a career worth saving. Others say different. That Kensing was a special doctor who saved patients, defying the profit-obsessed Parnassus to do so. And Parnassus is a rotten organisation, of that Hardy's sure, full of frightened employees, dogged by public scandal and hiding, he suspects, much more. Such as a string of unexpected deaths in intensive care.
To the fury of his old friend, homicide chief, Abe Glitsky, Hardy earns his client thirty days' grace before he's called to testify before a grand jury, a testimony likely, given the evidence, to result in Kensing's indictment. Thirty days in which Hardy knows he must find out who really murdered Markham. And maybe very many others too . . .
