A scary story makes for a great listen

I really enjoyed this book. It is a little bit scary with everything going on in the world at the moment but what seems like a plot to an interesting mystery, has the potential to become reality, so please any bad guys don't read or listen to this book. I enjoyed it because so much was happening, there is a lot of religious quotes but I think because it takes place mainly in Guatemala that it was appropriate. The contrast to the hospitals in the two countries is really well done and you definitely get a sense of what It is like. It is a medical thriller, so at times you did have your heart in your mouth but it certainly keeps you hooked from the start until the end. Off to start the next book.
Nick a busy trauma surgeon is no stranger to death but when his best friend is brutally murdered in Guatemala he takes it hard. When he flies out for the funeral he learns about the good work his friend had been carrying out and seeing his wife trying to carry on without him, Nick makes a judgement call and decides to stay for a few weeks. Here he is faced with surgeries that are life threatening to the patients but normal everyday operations back home. Unable to cope with the demands for his services especially when a high number of cases are for the same thing Nick enlists help from fellow doctors. Is there a reason so many children have club feet? Why has the birth rate in the area dropped to zero? Nick and his friends start to ask these important questions and in doing so uncover a sinister plot by the North Korea one that might just have lead to his best friends death.
I liked the narrator and thought he used a good a variety of voices to bring the characters to life in this jail biting adventure.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

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