Wild Thing: A Novel

by Josh Bazell

Overview

It's hard to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed. So hard that when a reclusive billionaire offers Dr. Peter Brown, aka Pietro Brnwa, a job accompanying a sexy but self-destructive paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown has no real choice but to say yes. Even if it means that an army of murderers, mobsters, and international drug dealers -- not to mention the occasional lake monster -- are about to have a serious Pietro Brnwa problem.

Facing new and old monsters alike, Dr. Brnwa's story continues in this darkly funny and lightning-paced follow up to Josh Bazell's bestselling debut.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316032209
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	02/26/2013
Series:	A Dr. Pietro Brnwa Novel
Pages:	388
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Josh Bazell has a BA in writing from Brown University and an MD from Columbia.  His first book, the international bestseller Beat the Reaper, has been published in thirty-two languages and was one of Time's ten best novels of 2009.  He lives in Brooklyn and Barcelona.

Editorial Reviews

What do you get when you add a rich man's bet over the existence of a lake monster to a fake cruise ship doctor's attempt to evade murderous mobsters and a deranged lady paleontologist? WILD THING is narrated by Robert Petkoff, who lends to the satirical and streetwise text an air of cynical bravura. This is an offbeat novel that attempts to be both fiction and nonfiction, interposing a wide variety of topics upon multiple plot conventions. The balancing act of obscenity-laden situation comedy and science-versus-religion debate is successfully maintained by Petkoff until the end, where a kind of glossary is provided, narrated by Stephanie Wolfe. J.L. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

FEBRUARY 2012 - AudioFile

What do you get when you add a rich man's bet over the existence of a lake monster to a fake cruise ship doctor's attempt to evade murderous mobsters and a deranged lady paleontologist? WILD THING is narrated by Robert Petkoff, who lends to the satirical and streetwise text an air of cynical bravura. This is an offbeat novel that attempts to be both fiction and nonfiction, interposing a wide variety of topics upon multiple plot conventions. The balancing act of obscenity-laden situation comedy and science-versus-religion debate is successfully maintained by Petkoff until the end, where a kind of glossary is provided, narrated by Stephanie Wolfe. J.L. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

FEBRUARY 2012 - AudioFile