Gone Before Goodbye

Gone Before Goodbye by Harlan Coben and Reese Witherspoon

The book was ridiculously engaging at first. Then it starts to drag with a few too many twists and turns. The book starts by introducing us to the protagonist, a doctor who has lost her medical license and her husband. They had been involved in a charity that would perform surgery to those in violent areas and husband was caught in cross fire. She later has an old friend offer to help her out. She is asked to do a job on some rich people in Russia. She will get special authorization there to do it. While there, she has a conversation with an AI grief bot of her husband and realizes that she could be in big trouble. She flees and later comes in contact with a government operative. She ends up in Dubai and is asked to do more special surgery. Then she sees the Russian oligarch get killed but learns that he was just an imposter and the the real oligarch wants her to perform surgery on him. She also learns the charity got involved with money laundering and organ harvesting and there were some murders planned and carried out. There were just a few too many twists at the end.