What a Deal! Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist

Starting March 19, 2025 for I week only, Little Italy, a psychological suspense novel, is available for $1.99. Just click on the cover and you’ll be taken directly to the Amazon book site.

Joe Belmont is a 1st-year medical student who puts in sixty-hour weeks as a waiter to support himself. Then without warning his saintly mother is murdered in her modest home, and his uncle, his only living relative, dies in a suspicious auto accident. Now, for no apparent reason, whoever killed them are trying to kill him.

From multiple hiding places within the Philadelphia neighborhood where he grew up, to the Jersey shore hospital where he was placed at bedrest for 12 nightmarish months, to the financial district of Zurich, Switzerland, Joe and his girlfriend, Lara, run for their lives.

Lara thinks the answer is locked up deep in Joe’s unconscious mind. Joe thinks that the more practical answer is to get a gun, learn how to use it, and disappear… But then what?

Thanks for reading.

Best Wishes, Art

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I’m Back From The World Of Denial, Art Smukler, MD, author & psychiatrist

I was driving home from the mall with my wife, enjoying how my Tesla handled, how it could park itself, automatically turn the headlights on and off when needed, beep when the traffic light changed, hug the road beautifully, when an awful thought jammed its way into my consciousness. Elon Musk, Trump’s bestie, was the guy who made this miracle car happen. He is also part of the White House duo who is instrumental in ripping apart our now obviously fragile democracy. He’s behaving exactly like he did when he purchased Twitter for over 40 Billion dollars, with mass firings and a “who gives a shit” attitude.

One day Trump says that the Ukraine started the war with Russia, a few days later he changes his mind. Congress has been useless. The judiciary, many judges appointed by Trump, is lackluster at best.

What to do?

Is there an answer?

We need a superhero with ethics!

What would Joe Belmont, my first hero, in my first novel, Little Italy, do?

Easy.

He’d sell the Tesla, buy a classic Mustang convertible, find a way to save our democracy and extricate us from the narcissistic duo, and live happily ever after with the love of his life.

So what can I do? What can we do?

Not sure yet.

Back to writing the truth is a beginning.

Thanks,

Art

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