ASIN: B00N31FGFW
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 268
Fred Klein, a rich 75 year-old San Franciscan, accidentally kills a young woman the day he learns his cholesterol was high. He flees the scene, remaining at-large for less than 48 hours, is arrested, incarcerated, bailed out, and not long after suffers a catastrophic health event of his own. Philanthropist explores the upper crust of the City by the Bay, with a magnifying glass on its legal and medical establishments. Combining tragedy, suspense, and comedy, first time novelist Larry Hill, a physician with more than 35 years of experience in the office and hospital, including 17 years abroad with the Peace Corps and the US Foreign Service,dissects not only poker-playing penny-pinching, Klein but his young second wife, Jennifer, her lover Ernesto, Fred's 3 professional sons, the widower and young daughter of Fred's victim, and many others. The story reaches not only San Francisco, its ...
