Dennis Heller wakes in a hospital to discover that he's just undergone major surgery for a minor car accident. Worse, it isn't the first time. The strange masked surgeon is the same one who cut him open in Boston after Dennis went in for a routine physical. Before they can take something else out of him, Dennis flees into the cold San Francisco night. Meanwhile, in Boston, the similarly young and confused Robert Krost jockeys for a better position in his father Max's cold heart and, more important, his will. A secret (a very dark one, Robert suspects) lies at the bottom of Max's frequent surgeries, but neither elderly Max nor his belligerent and aging trophy wife, Anita, is telling. In his sleek tale,
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