Midnight Rounds

By Richard Alan Greene

Book Overview

New Novel Pits Small-Town Doctor Against Small-Time Mob MIDNIGHT ROUNDS by Richard Greene In Richard Greene’s new novel, Midnight Rounds, Charlie Davids, a young Emergency Room physician, spends his... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977405303
• ISBN13: 9780977405305
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Gadd & Company Publishers
• Length: 215 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.2" x 0.6" x 5.6"

Customer Reviews

Midnight Rounds recommendation

This is a great book for vacation or beach or even for reading at home. It has suspense, and at the end of each chapter leaves you wanting to find out what happens next, but its also amusing. Its entertaining, light, original reading, very enjoyable.

ER meets The Sapranos

That was my first reaction as the storyline of the book began to emerge. This book offers a great mix of medicine, mafia, and mushy romance as the young doctor finds him self at the ultimate crossroads in his life. What would I do if I was Dr. Davids? Could I out-wit, out-run, or out-muscle Sal? Would I give up my profession for easy (albeit sleazy) street? Could I stand to lose the love of my life in order to save the love of my life? Read the book and see how you would answer these questions. I guarantee you will not be disappointed.

Mobbed? First Time Out Hits the Target Nicely

Midnight Rounds by Dr. Richard Greene is a lively and exciting story of anxious dilemma, surprising plot twists and finely drawn characters - all of whom have very human traits that will catch you right up and draw you in. Like the author, the book's narrative center, Charlie Davids, is a doctor, and in him Dr. Greene gives us a highly likeable character that we could swear was just like somebody we knew back in the day: a down to earth guy, complete with warm and consistent habits and beliefs and who, like all of us, rises above our Mitty-esque selves to unimagined strengths when circumstances require efforts that were unthinkable just a short time before. We see Charlie pulled from his jokes and patients and friends in the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts onto the edges of a mob war that eventually makes him a casualty. Because of the author's background as a practicing physician, he builds the reader a rich background of medical practice and protocol - only to blur all the lines by using the dilemma that Charlie is forced into as an ongoing contrasting friction. This moves the book to a climax that is surprising only until you see how cleverly you've been brought along to watch how far out of his element our boy has been pulled. The book is a quick read made all the quicker because I literally couldn't put it down. As the cover says this initial offering is "A Dr. Charlie Davids Novel," I can only hope that we have the chance to read more about our modest diagnostician.