The paradox of neurosurgery is that it demands perfection, but is performed by the imperfect. Mistakes happen. Sometimes small, sometimes hidden, sometimes epic. is too small a word for the consequences. In "The Surgeon's Sin," Dr. Peter Jenson makes a journey to redemption after just such a mistake. With his patient dying, his wife leaving, and his enemies denouncing his ability to practice, he begins the long journey by making a promise he shouldn't keep to a woman he can't refuse, and seeking the help he needs from a man he can't trust. Anxious surgeries in Florida and gunfights in Central America result only in despair. Finally, Peter makes a mutual survival pact with his friend's widow, a suicidal alcoholic. Together they seek a path of love and forgiveness as he faces the fulfillment of a fatal promise, an act that may cost him everything.