Surgeon of Fortune by Welbourn Kelley

Surgeon of Fortune

by Welbourn Kelley

Pan Books, 1960, paperback

Very Good Condition, some edge and shelf wear, some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, age toned pages, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“This full-blooded historical novel tells of a young doctor in eighteenth-century America, when medicine was primitive and exciting, and a young nation struggled for survival.  Amidst unforgettable scenes in the New York of 1789, war-torn Indian territory and a nightmare plague-city, move a host of memorable characters – John Fyfe, the young Scottish surgeon… The unscrupulous adventurer Colonel Bowles … His seductive half-breed companion Annalie … Dorcas Lord the tempestuous water-front beauty … Men and women who were not afraid to love greatly, to hate utterly, who murdered and betrayed but died heroically, in the fiery days of a new, raw republic.”