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An emergency room surgeon must defend himself against a teenage girls shocking allegation "in this scalpel-sharp medical thriller" (Kirkus) .. Dr. Ted Cogan had saved her life when he treated her in the ER six months ago. But now police detectives are questioning him about her, in intimate detail. It seems the seventeen-year-old girl hed saved is now dead. It looks like a suicide. And Cogan is in a heap of trouble. . Accused of raping the young woman, the case against Cogan appears to be airtight. Detective Hank Madden, a disabled veteran of the Menlo Park police force, has little patience or pity for men like Cogan. Now the rich, arrogant, self-described womanizer must do whatever it takes to prove that this terrible crime is not among his many sins.
About the Author
While David Carnoy lives in New York City with his wife and children, his novels are mainly set in Silicon Valley, where he grew up and went to high school (Palo Alto) . His debut novel, Knife Music (2010) , was a Top-10 bestseller on the Kindle and also a bestseller on the Nook. More medical thriller than high-tech thriller, to research the novel Carnoy spent a lot of time talking with doctors, visiting trauma centers, and trailed a surgeon at a hospital in Northern California to help create the book's protagonist, Dr. Ted Cogan.
The Big Exit (2012) and Lucidity (2017) are part of a trilogy that features Detective Hank Madden, but they're designed to be read as standalone thrillers. All his novels have a bit of a high-tech slant, reflecting Carnoy's experiences as an executive editor at CNET.com, where he currently works and is trying resolve his obsession with consumer electronics products. He went to college at Wesleyan University and has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University.
"A lot people ask me how I have time to write novels when I have a full-time job and four young kids and I just say I got a hold of some of those pills Bradley Cooper's character popped in the movie Limitless," Carnoy says. He adds that if Bradley Cooper is reading this, he'd make "an excellent Dr. Ted Cogan for the film version of Knife Music."
Carnoy is also fan of The Big Lebowski and all Coen brothers movies except The Ladykillers.
