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THE GOOD FATHER

As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons--hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin. Daniel Allen has always been a good kid--a decent student, popular--but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash.

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  • "Dr Paul Allen is a well-respected man. He lives a happy, comfortable life with his second wife and their family. Until the night when a knock at the door blows his world apart: a hugely popular presidential candidate has been shot, and they say the young man who pulled the trigger is Paul's son.Daniel, the only child from his first, failed marriage, was always a good kid and Paul is convinced his quiet boy is not capable of murder.Overwhelmed by a vortex of feelings, Paul embarks on a mission to understand what happened and why. Following the trail of his son's journey across America, he is forced to re-examine his life as a husband and a parent, and every decision he ever made."
  • "Een Amerikaanse arts vraagt zich af of hij wel een goede vader is geweest nadat hij heeft gehoord dat zijn 20-jarige zoon uit zijn eerste huwelijk een aanslag op een politicus heeft gepleegd."
  • "As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons--hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin. Daniel Allen has always been a good kid--a decent student, popular--but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash."@en
  • "Daniel Allen has always been a good kid but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. When a Democratic candidate for president is shot at a rally, Daniel is caught on video as the assassin. His father, a doctor, struggles to understand why. Is he trying to save Daniel from the probable death penalty-- or to assuage his own guilt about his son's destiny?"
  • "An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his 20-year old son."
  • "Establishing a specialty in diagnosing otherwise abandoned patients with conflicting symptoms, Chief of Rheumatology Paul Allen is placed in the impossible position of having to unlock the mind of his twenty-year-old son, who has attempted to assassinatea presidential candidate."@en
  • "Ein Attentat auf den Präsidentschaftskandidaten der USA - und der Verdächtige ist der eigene Sohn. Sprachlos verfolgt der Arzt Paul Allen die Meldung im Fernsehen. Und setzt alles daran, die Unschuld seines Sohns Daniel zu beweisen. Geplagt von Vorwürfen, die Erziehung vernachlässigt zu haben, deckt er entscheidende Ungereimtheiten auf. Immer mehr deutet auf eine Verschwörung gegen seinen Sohn hin. Als Daniel zum Tod verurteilt wird, setzt Allen alles auf eine Karte. Ein intelligenter Thriller über den Kampf eines Einzelnen gegen staatliche Macht und undurchsichtige Interessengruppen."

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  • "Americké romány"
  • "Erzählende Literatur: Gegenwartsliteratur ab 1945"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "American fiction"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"

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  • "THE GOOD FATHER"@en
  • "Dobrý otec"
  • "De goede vader"
  • "Der Vater des Attentäters"
  • "˜Derœ Vater des Attentäters Roman"
  • "Le bon père"
  • "The good father"
  • "The good father"@en
  • "Un bravo padre : romanzo"
  • "Un bravo padre : romanzo"@it
  • "En god far"@da
  • "En god far"
  • "Der Vater des Attentäters Roman"
  • "Der Vater des Attentäters : Roman"

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