The Price of Compassion: The Golden City Book Four

by AB Michaels

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Pub Date Aug 27 2018 | Archive Date Nov 16 2018

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Description

It’s 1907 and former surgeon Tom Justice sits in a San Francisco jail on murder charges. The attorney hired to defend him is perplexed: the doctor hasn’t confessed to the crime—if there even was a crime—but why won’t he declare his innocence?

The reasons are complex, reaching back to Tom’s youth and influencing the decisions he makes about his career, friends, and loved ones. An absorbing tale of medicine and morality in turn of the twentieth century America, The Price of Compassion is a stand-alone novel, Book Four in A.B. Michaels’ historical fiction series, “The Golden City.”

Advance Praise

"This novel, the fourth in Michaels’ The Golden City series ...is chock-full of details about California in the earliest part of the 20th century, and it showcases the rampant prejudice against Chinese immigrants that pervaded the West Coast during the period. In accessible and absorbing prose, the author also describes the arcane medical practices of the era [with] a sufficient number of high stakes moments to keep the tale suspenseful and engaging throughout. [It's] a well-thought-out legal drama, full of intrigue and duplicity." Kirkus Reviews

"This novel, the fourth in Michaels’ The Golden City series ...is chock-full of details about California in the earliest part of the 20th century, and it showcases the rampant prejudice against...