Oliver Pearl

The Last Gentle Dentist Oliver Pearl

Weave true life events together with a successful, manipulative Russian-American dentist who is on the run in Europe for U. S. federal medical fraud, and a cast of perceptive women and edgy Russian friends. The result is an irony-laced book that's womanizing-charged, steeped in man-v-woman observations and unfolds the evolving of a man who wants to be a renowned writer, yet is moving inexorably into a criminal mindset as he travels across Europe and the U. S. The Last Gentle Dentist is an attractive, forty-something man enjoying his dental-practice-enriched life in San Francisco's wealthy Pacific Heights neighborhood. He engages in gender chess games with women (including ex-wives, girlfriends and casual young women hook-ups) who use him for what they want while he's using them for self-gratification and writing material. He's after sexual and psychological dominance over them. They're seeking favors, feminine power over men and nouveau sexual pleasure. He's in Paris when his beloved San Francisco life ends. He's informed by his fiancé that federal law officers are coming to arrest him at his dental office for bilking the government. He's Vicodin high from an elective chin surgery he just underwent-which renders him somewhat incognito-and is now looking at favors he can call in or force. From Paris to Amsterdam to Odessa, past and new women enter his life, friends wander in from Russia, creating tag-teams for sex and odd couples for bad business deals the dentist-his hidden money leaking down-has to consider. Unworried over law forces tracking him down, he's become a Hunter Thompson gonzo commentator on feminine power and psychology. He sneaks back into New York City on the eve of September 11, 2001, and ends up wanted by diamond merchant criminals. He returns to France, where he outlines the plot of a novel he's confident will become a bestseller, marries an unwitting twenty-year-old, and his writer alter-ego and megalomaniac drive of life-and-death power over people overwhelms him.