The first novel in the series, Sentinel Event, introduced Jacob M. Stein, MD, a resident of New Hampshire, who is a physician surveyor for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. He was asked to investigate a sentinel eventâ€"an operating-room death in a small, rural hospital in North Carolina.
While at West Pointâ€"the United States Military Academy (USMA) in New York Stateâ€"Jake is challenged once again to determine the cause of a senior cadet's unanticipated and unexplainable death in the Intensive Care Unit of a large Medical Center close to USMA.
