Murder Sicilian Style

by John Avanzato

Overview

On a cold, rainy night in a deserted section of Tysons Corner, Secret Service agents murder a young woman in cold blood. Congressional intern, Emily Hoffman, witnesses the grisly crime and flees for her life to Manhattan, seeking the aid of her physician, Dr. John Cesari. The killers soon track her down and Cesari decides they must leave the country to keep her safe. Cesari's mob friend, Vito Gianelli, needs to travel to Palermo to interrogate certain individuals who have offended him, and he convinces Cesari to join forces with him in Sicily. Together, they turn the old country on its head battling local mafiosi, ungrateful family, and the United States Secret Service in this exhilarating thriller which roars to a dramatic climax on the slopes of Mount Etna, angrily spewing lava in the background.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798855605129
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	02/21/2023
Series:	John Cesari , #14
Pages:	414
Sales rank:	630,209
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.06(d)

About the Author

John Avanzato was born and raised in the Bronx, New York. He attended Fordham University undergraduate eventually going on to the SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine. He is a practicing gastroenterologist in upstate New York where he resides with his wife of more than thirty years. Hostile Hospital was his first foray into the world of creative writing. He now has now published fourteen full-length novels which have been well-received and has established himself as an author of medical thrillers revolving around the exploits of his singularly unique main character, John Cesari, a former gangster turned doctor. Avanzato affectionately refers to his works as being a new type of genre, the Gastro-Noir and his protagonist as being the "James Bond" of colonoscopy. Inspired by authors like Tom Clancy, David Baldacci, Mickey Spillane, John Grisham, and Lee Child, Avanzato writes about strong but flawed heroes.