The Physician and the Actor: A Story of Greed and Ambition [Paperback]

G.A. Hauser (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 13, 2006

Dr. Jason Phillips had always resented living in the isolated town of Carlisle, England, with its cold, rainy, long winters and small-town mentality. Working as an orthopedic surgeon in Carlisle General Hospital, dating a pretty, but dim nurse, Jason was forced to stay put in his unhappy surroundings by the lure of a large inheritance. Working on-call in casualty one night, Jason meets a twenty-year-old man who has just been hit by a motor car. Ewan P. Gallagher is an aspiring actor who is starring in a role at the local playhouse theatre. Young, fresh, talented and bold, Ewan falls for the handsome doctor at first sight, not hiding his attraction for the thirty-something-year-old single male very well. Eventually, the truth about Jason’s sexual nature begins to complicate his simple life, and as a final blow, his aging aunt makes him choose between his greed and his passion.

Product Details

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: PublishAmerica (March 13, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1413796656
• ISBN-13: 978-1413796650
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,817,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

About the Author
Award-winning author G.A. Hauser was born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, USA and attended university in New York City. She moved to Seattle, Washington where she worked as a patrol officer with the Seattle Police Department. In early 2000 G.A. moved to Hertfordshire, England where she began her writing in earnest and published her first book, In the Shadow of Alexander. Now a full-time writer, G.A. has written over sixty novels, including several best-sellers of gay fiction and is an Honorary Board Member of Gay American Heroes for her support of the foundation. For more information on other books by G.A., visit the author at her official website. www.authorgahauser.com
G.A. has won awards from All Romance eBooks for Best Author 2010, 2009, Best Novel 2008, Mile High, and Best Author 2008, Best Novel 2007, Secrets and Misdemeanors, Best Author 2007.
The G.A. Hauser Collection
Single Titles
Unnecessary Roughness
Hot Rod
Mr. Right
Happy Endings
Down and Dirty
L.A. Masquerade
My Best Friend's Boyfriend
The Diamond Stud
The Hard Way
Games Men Play
Born to Please
Of Wolves and Men
The Order of Wolves
Got Men?
Heart of Steele
All Man
Julian
Black Leather Phoenix
London, Bloody, London
In The Dark and What Should Never Be, Erotic Short
Stories
Mark and Sharon (formally titled A Question of Sex)
A Man's Best Friend
It Takes a Man
The Physician and the Actor
For Love and Money
The Kiss
Naked Dragon
Secrets and Misdemeanors
Capital Games
Giving Up the Ghost
To Have and To Hostage
Love you, Loveday
The Boy Next Door
When Adam Met Jack
Exposure
The Vampire and the Man-eater
Murphy's Hero
Mark Antonious deMontford
Prince of Servitude
Calling Dr Love
The Rape of St. Peter
The Wedding Planner
Going Deep
Double Trouble
Pirates
Miller's Tale
Vampire Nights
Teacher's Pet
In the Shadow of Alexander
The Rise and Fall of the Sacred Band of Thebes

The Action Series
Acting Naughty
Playing Dirty
Getting it in the End
Behaving Badly
Dripping Hot
Packing Heat
Being Screwed
Something Sexy
Going Wild

Men in Motion Series
Mile High
Cruising
Driving Hard
Leather Boys

Heroes Series
Man to Man
Two In Two Out
Top Men



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Writing as Amanda Winters
Sister Moonshine
Nothing Like Romance
Silent Reign
Butterfly Suicide
Mutley's Crew

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars worth a look-, March 29, 2006

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This review is from: The Physician and the Actor: A Story of Greed and Ambition (Paperback)

Hauser's move into contemporary fiction appears flawless. She spins a tale of romance and frustration that draws you in quickly and keeps you guessing. I don't know which character I adore most, the confused doctor or the wild actor, but the combination of the two leads to fireworks. A fun-filled romp, highly recommended.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This doctor patient M/M relationship pans out beautifully!, June 3, 2007

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This review is from: The Physician and the Actor: A Story of Greed and Ambition (Paperback)

I love doctor patient M/M relationship. This prequel of drama, anguished lovers, passion and greed is engrossing and well written. Certainly M/M fans looking for a good plot besides the sex and romance would not be disappointed. I for one finished this in a day and would have been frustrated at the ending if not for the available sequel (For Love and Money). So if you are a sap like me, you should not start this if you do not have the sequel on hand.
I like both men here, the handsome doctor Jason Philips with his weakness and flaws and his much younger lover, the wild and bold Ewan. Jason has my full sympathy when all his plans in his secured life is shattered by his awakening desire for the beautiful Ewan. Jason's manipulative aunt does bring to mind Charlie's predicament in the classic "The Lord Won't Mind".
I do find certain terms used in the dialogue awkward but this may be due to the story setting being in a remote part of England.
Looking forward to G.A. Hauser's next M/M effort.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Physician and the Actor by G.A. Hauser, September 9, 2007

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This review is from: The Physician and the Actor: A Story of Greed and Ambition (Paperback)

This is the prequel to For Love and Money, and I have a lot of aspectative for it. Contrary to my habit (to not read stories without an happily ever after) knowing that this couple in the sequel manage to stay together I want to read how they met and how they drift apart.

Jason is a thirty-seven years old doctor, from a wealthy family and with the chance to be even more wealthy when his old aunt finally will die. The reason he is so eager to inherited is cause he wants to live in comfort, without the necessity to work for live. So not a very honored reason. Yes, he loves Ewan, but his greed is much more than love. At least in this book.

Ewan is a twenty years old actor, with a great ambition to be an Hollywood movie star. Yes, he loves Jason, but he wants all and soon, he is too young and without patience to wait for his lover to understand that money doesn't give happiness.

Greed and Ambition, like in the subtitle of the book, are the reasons cause these two drift apart, but love will be the reason cause they manage to return together.

I like this book, cause I find the characters very true and full of imperfection: or not physically, they are flawless and like gods beautiful, but behind the pretty looks, they are all too human. Reading only this book, you really can't jusify Jason and only can judge Ewan a bit childish, but if you read it with its sequel, For Love and Money, you have a wonderful tale, very Hollywood love comedy style.