Synopses & Reviews
Franklin Royce is an alcoholic prison doctor charged with the odious administration of overseeing the difficult and violent capital punishment of a young black male who seems curiously indifferent to his grisly fate. Dr. Royce becomes convinced that his expertise is brought to bear on the death of an innocent man.
0n the lam from his wrecked marriage and bottom-of-the-barrel medical practice,
Royce sets out to discover the origin of the executed prisoner's travail. This sojourn constitutes nothing less than a full scale descent into the maelstrom. The fallen doctor stumbles into a Dallas, Texas hell-world he'd never in his wildest imaginings expected. Royce finds himself mired in an impersonal, exceedingly violent, sociopathic inferno fueled by ugly sex and despicable crimes, a chamber of horrors in which only the doctor's seemingly inexhaustible supply of clinical morphine acts as a soothing agent.
No excuses are accepted in Royce's new existence. Failure is the order of the day, with some failures more horrible than others. The doctor's constant companions include a tattooed pansexual psychopath who delights in pushing a situation to its limit and then beyond; and a languorous, Irish-Mexican heroin addict, a whore whose marred beauty fascinates and captivates Royce, who willingly follows her down the darkest, most depraved path on the black planet they inhabit.
Review
"Lethal Injection makes for graphic, harrowing reading. It has no heroes, no easy solutions, and a startling tragic conclusion." Booklist
Review
"From a publisher whose books 'are dedicated to the roman noir,' this roman is about as noir as you can get....Not for the squeamish." Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Jim Nisbet is a native of North Carolina, where he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has owned and operated a gas station and genreal store, worked as a surveyor, an assistant nuclear engineer, a radio and movie sound technician, and now builds electronic furniture.