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Published Jul 2006
480 pages
Genre: Thrillers
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The inventor of the medical thriller shows us a healer's dark side: the terrifying story of a doctor who plunges into a web of corruption and lies.
"The choice to reveal early on that Bowman and Stapleton will become bitter enemies lessens the suspense, while the climax....will annoy some." - Publishers Weekly.
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Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word
"medical" to the thriller genre, and thirty years after the publication of his
breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook
has successfully combined medical fact with fantasy to produce a succession of New York
Times bestsellers, including Outbreak (1987), Mindbend (1988), Mutation
(1989), Harmful Intent (1990), Vital Signs (1991), Blindsight (1992),
Terminal (1993), Fatal Cure (1994), Acceptable Risk (1995), Contagion
(1996), Chromosome 6 (1997) and Toxin (1998) and many others.
In each of his novels, Robin Cook strives to write about the issues at the forefront of
current medical practice. To date, he has explored issues such as...
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