The Unstoppables - by David Biro (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Richard Kline's world is turning upside-down.

Soon after Ivy League-educated physician Dr. Kline returns to his hometown of Bay Ridge to take over his father's medical practice, his dreams of a steady, conventional life begin to crumble. His wife leaves him; health insurance vultures have descended on his practice; a mysterious Russian woman becomes his new bookkeeper; and a patient holds him at gunpoint in his own waiting room. Kline seeks help from two long-lost childhood friends: Sal Bondini, the son of a notorious mob boss, and Sean O'Toole, a police officer at the local precinct. As boys, the three friends were constantly up to their necks in trouble. As adults, they now may be in over their heads.

Set in the colorful, old-world community of Bay Ridge, Brooklyn in the 1970s and early 2000s, The Unstoppables is a story about doctors and patients, seduction and violence, fathers and sons. Above all, it explores the joys and complications of renewing childhood bonds and is a moving testament to the friendships that endure.

Review Quotes

"The Unstoppables is a warm-hearted page-turner set in Brooklyn that masterfully connects coming-of-age adventures, organized crime, romance, and most of all, childhood friendships, rekindled."--Matthew Kneale, Booker Prize finalist and Whitbread Award-winning author

"In The Unstoppables, David Biro has crafted a clever, atmospheric crime novel that combines a nostalgic look at childhood bonding with present-day medical fraud and personal betrayal, as three long-time buddies growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s eventually wind up on different sides of the law."--Charles Salzberg, three-time Shamus Award nominee and award-winning author of Second Story Man, Devil in the Hole, and the Henry Swann detective series

"The magnificent David Biro is back with his most propulsive and imaginative novel yet. The Unstoppables is a story that celebrates the bonds of boyhood friendship, family, and community Brooklyn style. Richard, Sal, and Sean grew up together, bound by trouble and fun in close knit Bay Ridge. When Richard, now a doctor, gets himself in dutch in the old neighborhood, he turns to the friends he trusts the most and the ones that know him best--a glorious read."--Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of The View from Lake Como

"The world is closing in on Dr. Richard Kline--corporations now control health care. His wife dumped him. And the Mafia looms large in his life. The Unstoppables is about medicine, the mob, Russian hucksters, and men who bonded in youth, set in an old-school corner of Brooklyn. It's about one lonely doctor and a vanishing piece of America--the personal family physician--trying to hang on against Big Insurance."--Dale Maharidge, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning And Their Children After Them and the forthcoming novel American Boneyard