“I HAD NOT SEEN JESSE in years, but there was no mistaking the gentle domed brow...”

When the barely awake, caffeine-starved Robert Breit M.D. is called into the hospital’s operating theatre to deal with a gunshot victim and handed a bloodied envelope, nothing prepares him for the life-changing journey (both real and metaphorical) that follows.

“I realized I was still holding the bloody envelope. Dumbly, I waved it near Jesse’s face where he could see that it had been delivered safely. He closed his eyes slowly like an exhausted runner and nodded almost imperceptibly. Then he opened his fading eyes again and sought mine out among the throng around him. I bent closer to see what he wanted.”

What is inside the envelope that’s addressed to him?
How can he help the victim’s mother as murder and corruption pursue them both?
Just how does a young, quiet, self-effacing, and socially awkward surgeon end up choreographing a mad dash across the Mexican border in a lumbering 1988 RV?
And who or what is ‘Lizard’?

You’d be right to wonder. Even Breit says in his narration:

“By the time we left in our new home like some huge, crazed turtle, I didn’t know what to believe anymore.”

And that’s all before the FBI shows up!

If you like suspense, this book is for you. If you enjoy a good, timely dose of dry humor, you’re certain to engage with these characters. If you, like many hundreds of others, have come to trust Kathy Egbert as an author of original, page-turning, significant writing, then you will not be disappointed with her tour de force Jesse’s Shoes.

Ever wanted to pay someone back for a huge kindness they’d shown you, only to find it was too late? This is a story of communion and sacrifice that goes beyond the material; as heart-warming and life-affirming as it is tragic and bitterly real.

Once again, this author reminds us to never underestimate the power of courage, loyalty and love.

www.kathy-egbert.com

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