A01=David Biro
Author_David Biro
Bay Ridge
betrayal
Brooklyn
Category=FH
childhood friends
Childhood friendships
Crime
Doctor
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FictionBook Club Fiction
forthcoming
Friendship
Health care fraud
Mafia
mob
mob mystery
Mystery
Page-turner
Suspensethriller
Product details
- ISBN 9798895656259
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 24 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Post Hill Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Richard Kline’s world is turning upside-down.
Soon after Ivy League–educated physician Dr. Kline returns to his hometown of Bay Ridge to take over his father’s medical practice, his dreams of a steady, conventional life begin to crumble. His wife leaves him; health insurance vultures have descended on his practice; a mysterious Russian woman becomes his new bookkeeper; and a patient holds him at gunpoint in his own waiting room. Kline seeks help from two long-lost childhood friends: Sal Bondini, the son of a notorious mob boss, and Sean O’Toole, a police officer at the local precinct. As boys, the three friends were constantly up to their necks in trouble. As adults, they now may be in over their heads.
Set in the colorful, old-world community of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in the 1970s and early 2000s, The Unstoppables is a story about doctors and patients, seduction and violence, fathers and sons. Above all, it explores the joys and complications of renewing childhood bonds and is a moving testament to the friendships that endure.
Soon after Ivy League–educated physician Dr. Kline returns to his hometown of Bay Ridge to take over his father’s medical practice, his dreams of a steady, conventional life begin to crumble. His wife leaves him; health insurance vultures have descended on his practice; a mysterious Russian woman becomes his new bookkeeper; and a patient holds him at gunpoint in his own waiting room. Kline seeks help from two long-lost childhood friends: Sal Bondini, the son of a notorious mob boss, and Sean O’Toole, a police officer at the local precinct. As boys, the three friends were constantly up to their necks in trouble. As adults, they now may be in over their heads.
Set in the colorful, old-world community of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in the 1970s and early 2000s, The Unstoppables is a story about doctors and patients, seduction and violence, fathers and sons. Above all, it explores the joys and complications of renewing childhood bonds and is a moving testament to the friendships that endure.
David Biro is a physician with a medical degree from Columbia University and a PhD in English Literature from Oxford University. He is an Associate Clinical Professor at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in the Dermatology and Medical Humanities departments. He is the author of two non-fiction books: One Hundred Days: My Unexpected Journey from Doctor to Patient and The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief; and two novels: This Magnificent Dappled Sea and And the Bridge is Love. His articles and essays have appeared in numerous medical journals as well as in Slate, The New York Times Magazine, The Times of London, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
