This is one book I was chomping at the bit to read. I had heard great things so I had high expectations. I am thrilled to share my thoughts on Do No Harm, as part of the blog tour hosted by Random Things Tours. Thank you for my spot on the tour, and for sending me an advance copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.
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Blurb
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…
I’VE SAVED MANY LIVES.
WOULD YOU TRUST ME WITH YOURS?
My Review
Wow! Just, Wow! My favourite 2022 read to date. Imagine being faced with that dilemma. There is a prominent member of Parliament on your operating table. Your son has been kidnapped and the only way to save him is to kill the man in front of you. How can you even process that?
What this book does, what the author has done, is build a brilliant story that held my attention from beginning to end, and at 432 pages (hard cover), it isn’t a small novel, but I was emotionally invested and had to find out what happened.
Anna had to try and process everything is a short time and decide if she will do the unthinkable in order to save her son. She’s a strong, independent, woman with a huge problem weighing down on her, but with the uncertainty and desperation that she must have been feeling, she was so determined to save her son. I felt like I was right there with her, and rooting for her, all the way through.
The tension was palpable and the author did a great job of ramping it up as the story progressed. At one point I had to put the book down and make a cup of coffee just so I could process what I had read.
Overall, this book has done me a huge favour; it has introduced me to the work of this author. Having just read this back, it is clear that I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a well written, compelling, tense, thriller. I gave Do No Harm, by Jack Jordan, five doctors 🧑⚕️, and look forward to reading more from him soon.
Meet 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…
About The Book
Publisher : Simon & Schuster UK (26 May 2022)
Language : English
File size : 2671 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 429 pages
ASIN : B09DZ3R34L
Audible Release Date : 26 May 2022
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Audio UK
Listening Length : 10 hours and 48 minutes
Narrator : Lucy Paterson, Sarah Feathers, Jane Collingwood
Whispersync for Voice : Ready
Program Type : Audiobook
Version : Unabridged
Language : English
ASIN : B09LK977SV
Where To Buy
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