John Avanzato

Dr. John Cesari, former mobster turned gastroenterologist, finds himself on the wrong end of the law. A felony conviction lands him in Riker’s Island, one of the country’s most dangerous correctional facilities, doing community service. Fighting to survive, he becomes trapped in the web of a vicious criminal gang dealing in drugs and human flesh. A seemingly unrelated and mysterious death of a college student in Greenwich Village thrusts Cesari...

On a cold, rainy night in a deserted section of Tysons Corner, Secret Service agents murder a young woman in cold blood. Congressional intern, Emily Hoffman, witnesses the grisly crime and flees for her life to Manhattan, seeking the aid of her physician, Dr. John Cesari. The killers soon track her down and Cesari decides they must leave the country to keep her safe. Cesari’s mob friend, Vito Gianelli, needs to travel to Palermo to interrogate certain...

A deranged anesthesiologist with unnatural desires lures innocent women to his brownstone in a swank section of Manhattan. All was going well until John Cesari M.D. came along becoming a thorn in his side. Known as The Gas Man, his hatred of Cesari reaches the boiling point. He plots to take him down once and for all turning an ordinary medical conference into a Las Vegas bloodbath. Hungover and disoriented, Cesari awakens next to a mobster’s dead...

Recovering from a broken heart, John Cesari MD embarks on a Mediterranean cruise to unwind and clear his head. His goals are to see the sights, eat a lot, and most of all to stay away from women. A chance encounter in a Venetian Bar with the lusty captain of the Croatian women's national volleyball team just before setting sail turns his plan on its head. When she tells him she is being sold into a forced marriage, he is thrust into the middle of...

Our favorite gastroenterologist John Cesari joins a small hospital in rural New York and is beginning to acclimate to the colorful administrators who hired him when Jasmine walks into his life. Single, beautiful and just a little bit odd, he is immediately smitten by her charm. He soon discovers that she is more than just slightly eccentric and is dangerously obsessed with Halloween, witchcraft and devil worship. Cesari is determined to help her as...

Trapped on a small island off the coast of South Carolina during hurricane season, Cesari finds himself in the company of mysterious yet collegial fellow travelers. The severe weather conditions pose serious challenges for the group, but the odd behavior and quirky dispositions of the hotel staff are even more disconcerting. And then, one by one, the guests start to disappear.

"John Cesari is a gangster turned doctor living in Manhattan saving lives one colonoscopy at a time. While on a well-deserved vacation, he stumbles upon a murder scene and becomes embroiled in political intrigue involving the world's oldest profession" -- back cover.

Highly successful and ambitious physicians from St. Matt's Hospital in Manhattan are dying one at a time under suspicious circumstances as a mob war rages in the background over control of contracts to renovate the Brooklyn Bridge. John Cesari MD, a gastroenterologist with close ties to the underworld and currently the medical director of St. Matt's, is aiding the police investigation into the deaths of his colleagues. Juggling these multiple complex...