First, Do No Harm

Blurb

Martin Firestone can't figure why his father, the eccentric painter Leo Firestone, is throwing a fit. All Martin did was tell his dad he'd been accepted to medical school.

Then, Leo tells Martin a story about his own father, Dr. Samuel Firestone, an extraordinarily gifted doctor. But, during the summer of 1943, Leo witnessed some highly questionable behavior. Illegal abortions, supplying heroin to an addict, black-market pharmaceuticals, babies sold to adoptive parents-all in a day's work for Samuel Firestone, M.D.

When Leo decided his father was covering up a murder, he and his girlfriend followed a trail of clues. Now sixty years later,Martin picks up where Leo left off. And like his father, he comes away with a whole lot more junk than he'd bargained for.

"A triumph of storytelling--the juggling of the two narratives is flawless--that will hold readers as spellbound as a terrifying tale told round the campfire." --Booklist starred review