Do No Harm by Jack Jordan
My son has been taken. And I’ve been given a choice...
Kill a patient on the operating table. Or never see him again.
The man lies on the table in front of me. As a surgeon, it’s my job to save him.
As a mother, I know I must kill him.
You might think that I’m a monster.
But there really is only one choice. I must get away with murder.
Or I will never see my son again.
Could you kill another person to save your own child?
When heart surgeon Dr Anna Jones returns home to find her son kidnapped, she is forced to make an impossible choice. Kill a high-profile patient on the operating table, or never see her son again.
Told from the perspectives of Anna, her scrub nurse, Margot, who has her own secrets to protect and DI Rachel Conaty, Anna must first make the impossible decision...
THE HEART-STOPPING THRILLER OF 2022 #DoNoHarm
From the author of Before her Eyes and Night by Night comes a fast-paced, high-concept, breathless new thriller
I’VE SAVED MANY LIVES.
WOULD YOU TRUST ME WITH YOURS?
About the author
Jack Jordan is the global bestselling author of Anything for Her, My Girl, A Woman Scorned, Before Her Eyes, and Night by Night and an Amazon No.1 bestseller in the UK, Canada, and Australia. After selling at auction in the UK and numerous foreign territories, Do No Harm is set to be the thriller of the summer in 2022. The idea for Do No Harm came to Jack after undergoing a minor medical procedure where he had to be sedated and trust strangers with his welfare. After the anaesthesia wore off, Jack began scribbling his notes, wondering to himself just how iron-clad a surgeon’s oath is, and what it would take to break it...
Review
‘Do No Harm’ is a tautological masterpiece! It grabs your attention and honestly doesn’t let go until the final chapter. I stayed up waaayyy past my bedtime to finish as my brain was demanding the outcome. You do need to suspend your disbelief as (hopefully!) this would never happen in real life, but once you do it’s highly entertaining.
Anna returns home from work and find her house overrun with strangers, cameras being installed, her son and her neighbour missing. In order to get her son back she needs to kill her local MP, whilst he is on her operating table. Can she do the unthinkable to save Zach or does her Hippocratic oath stop her from doing it?
The story is told through the viewpoints of Anna, the heart surgeon, Margot, the surgerical nurse, and Rachel, the police detective. I can’t say I liked all of them as characters but I think the author has wanted it this way. Especially when it comes to Anna - the cold, heartless surgeon who is used to getting her own way. I did warm to Rachel though and I loved the counterbalance between the mother’s and what they would do for their children.
This was a riveting read and one I think many will enjoy! Let me know your thoughts.
