Lt. Abe Glitsky and defense attorney Dismas Hardy are back—on opposite ends of a medical malpractice suit…and possible murder case.When the head of San Francisco’s largest HMO dies in his own hospital as the result of massive injuries inflicted by a random hit-and-run car accident. But the autopsy soon tells a different story and Abe Glitsky quickly sets his sights on attending physician Eric Kensing.Desperate and in need of an attorney, Kensing turns to Dismas Hardy for his defense. Hardy must uncover a twisting conspiracy of avarice and violence that takes the lives it is sworn to save. A timely and gripping novel that puts lives—and a long-standing friendship—at grave risk, THE OATH is John Lescroart at his galvanizing best.