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Dr. Felix Hoffmann is about to head home after a grueling night shift when he hears the words “This gun is loaded!” Hoffmann, long accustomed to helping others on the verge of death, suddenly finds himself—along with several colleagues and patients—at the mercy of a deranged blind kidnapper in the ICU. Deploying his own distinctive brand of diplomacy—and his characteristic acerbic wit—Hoffmann tries to convince the man to end the standoff while he still can. As the hot summer days tick by and the tension builds toward the shocking climax, Hoffmann is forced to reconsider who is friend and who is foe. The question becomes not only whether he can save the lives of all involved, but what this crisis reveals about the people he thought he knew best.
This fourth novel in Christoph Spielberg’s acclaimed Dr. Hoffmann series offers searing yet humorous commentary on modern medicine, globalization, the media, and simple human kindness.
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“If you have read Spielberg’s hospital mysteries, you know what you are in for: suspenseful cases with unforeseeable twists…paired with scathing humour…Spielberg hits the nail on the head!
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About Christoph Spielberg
Christoph
Spielberg is a cardiologist and Agatha Christie prize-winning author living
in Berlin, Germany. He writes the ongoing Dr. Hoffmann crime series which will
soon be aired on German television.
About David de Vries
David de Vries, an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator and veteran stage actor and director, spent three years in the cast of Wicked and was the last Lumiere in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast. He has also appeared in numerous films and voiced commercial campaigns for companies large and small, including American Express, AT&T, UPS, Motorola, Georgia-Pacific, Delta Airlines, Coca Cola, and Ford, among others. He can be seen in a number of feature films, including The Founder, The Accountant, Captain America: Civil War, and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. On television, his credits include House of Cards, Nashville, and Halt and Catch Fire.