Publisher, Tantor Media (October 2007)

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Received the coveted AudioFile Magazine's 'Earphones Award' (August / September 2008) for exceptional narrative voice and style, vocal characterization, appropriateness for audio format and enhancement of the text!

"This honest and often poignant testimony from The Three Doctors is potent medicine that will heal and help fortify all readers." ---Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, New Jersey

"Every parent should read The Bond because it highlights the power of forgiveness and drives home the fact that it's never too late to be a family." ---Bill Cosby

“This is a book that every father and every family should read and take to heart. It's honest and brave and true." ---Queen Latifah, musician, actress, and author of Ladies First

"Richard Allen's narration of this important memoir couldn't be more sensitive, warm, and connected to the book's redemptive underpinnings.... His clear, consistent baritone is deeply satisfying from start to finish." ---AudioFile Magazine

The Three Doctors---Drs. Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt---discovered early in their friendship that they shared one disturbing trait: as children, they had to navigate life in inner-city Newark without a father's support and guidance. While each young man dealt with the turmoil caused by an absent father, with no male role model to turn to for advice, each veered dangerously close to a life of delinquency, drugs, and crime. But despite great odds, the three overcame the statistics. In high school, they formed the Pact, a promise to one another that they would become doctors, and it kept them dedicated to one another and to their dream and helped to put them on the road to successful careers as physicians.

In The Bond, the Three Doctors plumb their own tough childhoods to explore the national epidemic of fatherlessness. But rather than cling to any bitterness or pain they may have felt as children about their fathers' inability to be in their lives, as adults Davis, Jenkins, and Hunt sought out their fathers and worked to reconnect with them. In the doctors' own words---and their fathers'---they describe the crucial lessons they learned, identifying ways to stem the tide of fatherlessness that's sweeping through communities across the country. Honest, brave, and poignant, The Bond is a book for every family, every father, and every man.

About the Authors: Sampson Davis is a board-certified emergency medicine physician at St. Michael's Medical Center and assistant medical director of the Emergency Department at Raritan Bay Medical Center. He earned his medical degree from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and is a recipient of the Essence Lifetime Achievement Award. He is coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Pact and We Beat the Street. Davis is cofounder, with George Jenkins and Rameck Hunt, of the Three Doctors Foundation, which seeks to inspire and create opportunities for inner-city communities through education, mentoring, and health awareness. He lives near Newark, New Jersey.

George Jenkins, an assistant professor of clinical dentistry at Columbia University in New York City, earned his dentistry degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. He is a recipient of the Essence Lifetime Achievement Award and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Pact and We Beat the Street. Jenkins is cofounder, with Sampson Davis and Rameck Hunt, of the Three Doctors Foundation, which seeks to inspire and create opportunities for inner-city communities through education, mentoring, and health awareness. He lives near Newark, New Jersey.

Rameck Hunt is a board-certified internist at University Medical Center at Princeton and an assistant professor of medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, where he earned his medical degree. He is a recipient of the Essence Lifetime Achievement Award and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Pact and We Beat the Street. Hunt is cofounder, with Sampson Davis and George Jenkins, of the Three Doctors Foundation, which seeks to inspire and create opportunities for inner-city communities through education, mentoring, and health awareness. He lives near Newark, New Jersey.

Margaret Bernstein is an award-winning journalist at the Plain Dealer in Cleveland, Ohio.

About the Narrator: Richard Allen is a four-time Audie Award nominee and has won three AudioFile Earphones Awards. His audiobooks include From Midnight to Dawn, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney, Futureland, and Right as Rain.