A Dr. Pietro Brnwa Novel Wild Thing, (Paperback)

from mkschoen

Pietro Brnwa, currently cruise ship doctor and formerly a mob hit-man, has been hired by a reclusive billionaire for an unusual mission: accompany the billionaire's paleontologist on a mission to see whether a Loch Ness Monster type creature is hiding in a Minnesota Lake. And then things get weir...

from bookappeal

Bazell has a lot to live up to after his debut novel, Beat the Reaper. As a whole, Wild Thing doesn't achieve the clever mix of mafia and medicine, mostly because the plot involves little of either. Dr. Pietro Brnwa is still wanted by the mob and in WITSEC but he inexplicably ends up on a mission...

from JackieBlem

This book picks up some time after the events of Blazell's first book, "Beat The Reaper", with the former mob hitman turned doctor via the witness protection program (though he's escaped that too) who is now calling himself Dr. Lionel Azimuth. He is getting by working as a cruise ship doctor thes...

from nivramkoorb

Wild Thing was a fun read. Mildly amusing and entertaining, it was not as good as Bazell's first book. I got a chance to meet him at a book reading in San Francisco. A very interesting guy. He does like to display his knowledge and he creates fun characters. He should get rid of the footnotes bec...

from nbmars

Note: Both JAF and JAB read the book, so we have included our separate evaluations after the review. Lev Grossman says here of Josh Bazell, "Reading him is like being able to monopolize the attention of the most interesting person at a party." So true! The guy is a polymath. As I see it, this sec...