“Best damn medical thriller I’ve read in 25 years. Terrifying OR scenes, characters with real texture.” —Stephen King, #1 New York Times–bestselling author
There are many ways to die in a hospital . . . being sick is only one of them.
Chief resident Steve Mitchell is the quintessential surgeon: ambitious, intelligent, confident. Charged with molding a group of medical trainees into doctors, and in line for a coveted job, Steve’s future is bright. But then a patient mysteriously dies, and it quickly becomes clear that a killer is on the loose in his hospital. A killer set on playing a deadly game with Steve. A killer holding information that could ruin his career and marriage. Now, alone and under a cloud of suspicion, Steve must discover a way to outsmart his opponent and save the killer’s next victim before the cycle repeats itself again and again . . .
A chilling and compelling thriller that also takes you into the hospital and details the politics and hierarchy among doctors, as well as the life and death decisions that are made by flawed human beings, Kelly Parsons’ Doing Harm marks the gripping debut of a major fiction career.
“[For] readers who like Robin Cook and Michael Palmer.” —Booklist
“Best damn medical thriller I’ve read in 25 years. Terrifying OR scenes, characters with real texture.” —Stephen King, #1 New York Times–bestselling author
“A terrific medical thriller—compelling, gripping, and terrifying.” —Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Think Twice
“Brilliant.” —Ridley Pearson,#1 New York Times–bestselling author of Undercurrents
“Top notch storytelling.” —Steve Berry, New York Times–bestselling author of The Atlas Maneuver
KELLY PARSONS is a board-certified urologist with degrees from Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins, and he is on the faculty at the University of California San Diego. He lives with his family in Southern California. Doing Harm is his first novel.