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Last Surgeon

by Michael Palmer

Dr. Nick Garrity works on the Helping Hands RV, a mobile clinic that gives medical aid to the homeless on the streets of Baltimore. Nick is looking for Umberto, the soldier who saved his life in Afghanistan. Both are suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Umberto disappeared three years ago. He said that he was being recalled to go on a secret mission. Jillian Coates, a nurse from Virginia, is looking for Nick. She believes that he has some connection to the death of her sister, who was also a nurse. Looking for that connection leads them to a specialty hospital that does plastic surgery. Soon they are both being stalked by a murderer. He specializes in making his murders look like accidents. Will Nick and Jillian be able to find that connection before the murderer finds them?