Unable to get work in white-dominated hospitals, a Black doctor approaches an old acquaintance, Al Capone, for the money to start his own practice and finds himself leveraged into doing backroom surgery for wounded mobsters.

An awesome concept based on the real grandfather of the author is derailed by a script that careens around between time periods, gritty gangster action, and new age spiritualism. Scenes and characters are shoved in with no purpose or payoff and the ending is abrupt and leaves the story feeling incomplete, as if this is the first volume of a series even though it is not marked as such. ( )