This is the #1 pick on the IndieNext List for January 2009, which is why it caught my attention (that and the obnoxiously bright cover it has!). The best description I can come up with for this book is if the series "The Sopranos" and the series "Scrubs" had a child, and made Quentin Tarantino and Amy Sedaris it's godparents, this would be the baby. The main character is a former Mob hitman who is in the witness protection program, finishing up his medical training (his way of making up for all the people he's killed, more or less) when suddenly one of his patients recognizes him from his former life and starts the retribution ball rolling. This is a debut novel by a real life medical resident, so there are endless insider jokes and footnotes (yes, footnotes) regarding hospital behind the scenes stuff (very funny but perhaps more than you really want to know about what is ACTUALLY going on). It's funny, it's graphic, it's snarky, it's entertaining for those of us who look at the world with a jaded and sarcastic eye. Fans of Palahniuk will love it.

Jackie