Best Thrillers has called The Madhouse, Dr. Lawrence Matrick’s new book, “one of the year’s best thrillers” for 2019.
Best Thrillers goes on to write that The Madhouse is “a gritty tour-de-force medical thriller that showcases both the wonders and horror of 20th-century medicine.
“The Madhouse is the story of New Orleans native Alex Gage, who struggles out of poverty to become not only a respected psychiatrist, but also an aspiring reformist. The story begins in the deep south as Alex is born with a clubfoot that keeps him from being drafted (it would be surgically repaired later in life). Despite his ascension to higher learning, he finds himself working as a physician in a Canadian mental institution – a nightmarish shop of horrors that would make Dante reconsider his definition of hell.”