Meet Peter Brown, a young <ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">Manhattan</ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY> emergency room doctor with an unusual past that is just about to catch up with him. His morning begins with the quick disarming of a would-be mugger, followed by a steamy elevator encounter with a sexy young pharmaceutical rep, topped off by a visit with a new patient - and from there Peter's day is going to get a whole lot worse and a whole lot weirder. Because that patient knows Peter from his other life, when he had a different name and a very different job. The only reason he's a doctor now is thanks to the Witness Protection Program-and even they can't protect him from the long reach of the <ST1:STATE w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on">New Jersey</ST1:PLACE></ST1:STATE> mob. Now he's got to do whatever it takes to keep his patient alive so he can buy some time...and beat the reaper.<BR><BR>BEAT THE REAPER is not just the only novel that will be compared to Quentin Tarantino's films, <EM>Grey's Anatomy</EM>, and Chuck Palahniuk-it's also the most original and entertaining debut thriller you'll read this year.