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The Doctor of Aleppo

A Novel

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The Doctor of Aleppo

By: Dan Mayland
Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi
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While working in the ancient Silk Road city of Aleppo, American Hannah Johnson and her Swedish lover Oskar are drawn into the mounting turbulence of the impending Syrian civil war.

After Oskar is wounded at a street protest one evening, he and Hannah cross paths with Dr. Samir Hasan, a renowned surgeon. As the protests swell into all-out war, Dr. Hasan tends not only to Oskar, but also risks his life, his practice, and his family to tend to a nephew the government has branded an insurgent.

Dr. Hasan's humanitarian activities come to the attention of a vengeful, Javert-like secret police officer whose son's death on Dr. Hasan's watch triggers a series of events that will drag Hannah and Oskar deeper into the war and put Hannah and Dr. Hasan in the officer's crosshairs.

Both intimate and sweeping in scope, The Doctor of Aleppo lends insight into how the most brutal, devastating war of the 21st century is mirrored on the personal scale, leaving scars that can never be healed.

©2020 Dan Mayland (P)2020 Blackstone Publishing Fiction Genre Fiction Suspense Thriller & Suspense War & Military War Military
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I loved this till the last twenty minutes of the Audible book. It felt as though two hours of story was squashed in to twenty minutes. I was so disappointed. Did the author get fed up with writing and wanted to just finish it?

The ending ruined it for me

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Thank you for this raw, beautiful, overwhelming description of humans at their worst and best.

Heartbreaking

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