Bodily Harm: A Novel

Bodily Harm: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ROBERT DUGONI RETURNS WITH HIS MOST EXHILARATING THRILLER TO DATE, A PULSE-POUNDING STORY OF CORPORATE GREED, ESPIONAGE, AND THE LENGTHS ONE MAN IS WILLING TO GO FOR JUSTICE.<br><br><I>B</I><I>odily Harm</I> opens with a big win for David Sloane and his new partner, Tom Pendergrass, in a malpractice case centered on the death of a young child. But on the heels of this seeming victory, an unlikely character€"toy designer Kyle Horgan€" comes forward to tell Sloane that he€s gotten it all wrong: Horgan€s the one who€s truly responsible for the little boy€s death and possibly others€"not the pediatrician Sloane has just proven guilty.<br><br>Ordinarily, Sloane might have dismissed such a person as a crackpot, but something about this case has always troubled him€"something that he couldn€t quite pinpoint. When Sloane tries to follow up with Horgan, he finds the man€s apartment a shambles€" ransacked by unknown perpetrators. Horgan has vanished without a trace. Together with his longtime investigative partner Charles Jenkins, Sloane reexamines his clients€ son€s death and digs deeper into Horgan€s claims, forcing him to enter the billion-dollar, cutthroat toy industry. As Sloane gets closer to the truth, he trips a wire that leads to a shocking chain of events that nearly destroys him.<br><br>To get to the bottom of it all and find justice for the families harmed, Sloane must keep in check his overwhelming desire for revenge. Full of nail-bitingly tense action scenes as well as edge-of-your-seat courtroom drama, <I>Bodily Harm </I>finds Robert Dugoni at the very top of his game.