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The quiet boy / Ben H. Winters.

ISBN: 9780316428545
ISBN: 031642854X
ISBN: 9780316428569
ISBN: 0316428566
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company, 2021.

Summary:

In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room. In 2019, Shenk--still in practice but a shell of his former self--is hired to defend Wesley Keener's father when he is charged with murder . . . the murder, as it turns out, of the expert witness from the 2008 hospital case. Shenk's adopted son, a fragile teenager in 2008, is a wayward adult, though he may find his purpose when he investigates what really happened to the murdered witness. Two thrilling trials braid together, medical malpractice and murder, jostling us back and forth in time.