Josh Bazell’s novels are one part hard-boiled dark comedy, two parts Encyclopedia Britannica as written by a foul-mouthed Carl Hiaasen. Bazell’s latest concoction is “Wild Thing,” which continues the frenetic adventures of mob-hitman-in-witness protection Dr. Pietro Brwna. When we last saw our hero in “Beat the Reaper” (spoilers ahead, folks), he had barely escaped the murderous clutches of a Mafia hit squad that had tracked him down at the dreary Manhattan hospital where he was hiding out from his former bosses. Now a junior physician on a cruise ship, Brwna’s (pronounced “...
