THE FOURTH DAY (Dr. Hoffman #4) by Christoph Spielberg
This Thriller Does Not Have Much Sizzle Originally published in Germany in 2002. Re-published by Amazon Crossing in 2013. Translated from German to English by the author (Christoph Spielberg) and Christina Henry de Tessan Amazon.com's publishing house Amazon Crossing is designed to bring popular authors who do not write in English to an English-speaking audience. Award-winning German author Christoph Spielberg has brought his Dr. Hoffman series to this program. This series is quite popular in Germany, even spawning a series of made for TV movies. Dr. Hoffman is a wise-cracking doctor in a down and out hospital. He has just got done with a very long shift and was planning to head home after one more consultation in the Intensive Care Unit when a blind gunman with a bunch of explosive charges comes in with a seeing eye dog and takes the room hostage, along with two doctors, two nurses and several patients. While this would certainly seem to be an exciting premise for a