Publisher's Synopsis
Ben Nealy is a third-year medicine resident at New City who becomes concerned that someone tried to kill a homeless man he treated in hospital. Senior staff was unpersuaded. FInally, after a second episode, Ben gets the attention of Tom Bolling, chief of staff at New City. Tom is a retired brigadier general and orthopedic surgeon with a long career of interest in quality-of-care issues, especially those beset by tradition. Tom thinks Ben may be right and asks his friend. Detective Ron Looney to assist in the investigation, Ron goes to get the man's fingerprints for identification and discovers the has none. And the case then becomes deeper and darker.
