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Cancer patients from St. Matt's Hospital are turning up dead all over lower Manhattan and a rogue pain management specialist is suspected. A ruthless financial adviser known as The Sommelier, with a taste for the high life, scams St. Matt's Hospital out of millions of dollars by playing three card monte with their investments. Brought to the point of ruination, the hospital administration takes desperate measures to recover their losses. These...

A turf war erupts between rival mobster gangs in lower Manhattan over control of gentlemen's club on Second Avenue. Dr. John Cesari gets dragged into the thick of things as his lifelong friend, Vito Gianelli, the legendary capo of Mulberry Street, fights off encroachment of his territory by Romanian mafiosi from the east side. The action spills over into St. Matt's where Cesari is employed when a new and dirty CEO is commissioned to revitalize...

John Avanzato grew up in the Bronx, New York during the turbulent times of the 1960's and 1970's and is now a physician residing upstate with his family. A lifelong dream of writing fiction came to fruition in 2014 with the publication of his first book, Hostile Hospital. He has now authored twelve full-length novels and is working on the thirteenth. His stories are loosely inspired by his life experiences as a medical doctor in combination wi...

Trapped on a small island off the coast of South Carolina during hurricane season, Cesari finds himself in the company of mysterious yet collegial fellow travelers. The severe weather conditions pose serious challenges for the group, but the odd behavior and quirky dispositions of the hotel staff are even more disconcerting. And then, one by one, the guests start to disappear...

Our favorite gastroenterologist John Cesari joins a small hospital in rural New York and is beginning to acclimate to the colorful administrators who hired him when Jasmine walks into his life. Single, beautiful and just a little bit odd, he is immediately smitten by her charm. He soon discovers that she is more than just slightly eccentric and is dangerously obsessed with Halloween, witchcraft and devil worship. Cesari is determined to help h...

When former mob thug turned doctor, John Cesari, takes a job as a gastroenterologist at a small hospital in upstate New York, he assumes he's outrun his past and started life anew. But trouble has a way of finding the scrappy Bronx native. Things go awry one night at a bar when he punches out an obnoxious drunk who won't leave his date alone. Unbeknownst to Dr. Cesari, that drunk is his date's stalker ex-boyfriend-and a crooked cop. Over...

Dr. John Cesari is a gastroenterologist employed at Saint Matt's Hospital in Manhattan. He tries to escape his unsavory past on the Bronx streets by settling into a Greenwich Village apartment with his girlfriend, Kelly. After his adventures in Hostile Hospital, Cesari wants to stay under the radar of his many enemies. Through no fault of his own, Cesari winds up in the wrong place at the wrong time. A chance encounter with a mugger turns o...

John Cesari is a gangster turned doctor living in Manhattan saving lives one colonoscopy at a time. While on a well-deserved vacation, he stumbles upon a murder scene and becomes embroiled in political intrigue involving the world's oldest profession. His hot pursuit of the truth leads him to the highest levels of government, where individuals operate above the law. As always, girl trouble hounds him along the way making his ...

In Manhattan, a cancer ridden patient commits suicide rather than become a financial burden to his family. Accusations of malfeasance are leveled against his caregivers. Rogue gastroenterologist, part-time mobster, John Cesari, is tasked to look into the matter on behalf of St. Matt's hospital. The chaos and inequities of a healthcare system run amok, driven by corporate greed and endless bureaucratic red tape, become all too apparent to...