The Dismantling
A Novel
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 28, 2015
How much of yourself are you willing to sell?
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- Who it’s for
- A chilling, fast-paced thriller turns a black-market transplant scheme into a question of survival and atonement.
- Themes
- Moral compromise, Atonement, Reconciling past and present selves
- Pacing
- Fast
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How much of yourself are you willing to sell? At twenty-five, Simon Worth is a med school dropout, facing the grim reality of failure and massive student loans. Left with few options, he becomes an organ broker for a black-market organization, matching cash-strapped donors with recipients whose time on the transplant list is running out.
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Tasked with finding a donor for Lenny Pellegrini, a severely depressed ex-NFL player who’s been drinking himself to death, Simon’s luck appears to change when he’s contacted by Maria Campos, a young woman desperate for cash whose liver happens to be the perfect match. The transplant goes according to plan . . . until soon afterward, when Maria disappears and Lenny makes a cruel and destructive decision. As Simon’s world becomes increasingly dangerous, he learns of an unspeakable secret from Maria’s past and must decide, against his better moral judgment, that the only way he’ll survive is to trust her. Chilling and fast-paced, The Dismantling questions the meaning of atonement and asks how you can reconcile the person you once were—and the person you want to be—with the person you are today.
Moral Fault Lines
A chilling, fast-paced thriller turns a black-market transplant scheme into a question of survival and atonement.
Come here for
- The uneasy collision of medical desperation, crime, and moral compromise
- A tense story about who gets to start over—and at what cost
Expect
- Danger that grows from Simon’s choices and Maria’s disappearance
- Serious questions about the person you are versus the person you want to be
Where it sits
| Medical Thrillers | 62% |
|---|---|
| Crime Fiction | 52% |
| Psychological Thrillers | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Suspense
- Thrillers
- Medical Thrillers
- Authors
- Brian DeLeeuw
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- April 28, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Moral compromise · Atonement · Reconciling past and present selves
- Reading lane
- Suspense