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Hardcover by Robin Cook
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Creating the term "medical thriller," Dr. Robin Cook's stream of bestselling thrillers have scared and captivated millions of readers.
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Hardcover by Robin Cook
Features
Hardcover:
445 pages
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group; (December 1992)
ASIN:
0399137718
From Publishers Weekly
Good news: Cook ( Coma ; Blindsight ) lures us into his newest medical thriller easily and sustains our interest until the very end, despite lots of medispeak. Bad news: the characters are one-note players. Boston Irish "townie" Sean Murphy blazes through Harvard and Harvard Medical School, then leaps at the chance to spend part of his internship at a Miami clinic with a 100% remission rate for a particular type of cancer. He also wants to avoid making any commitment to beautiful nurse Janet Reardon, a Boston blueblood. But he's barred from the top-security cancer research lab, and then Janet arrives to work at the clinic, too--she's "aloof and untouchable" but not above chasing Sean, the dashing "Black Irish" with "Mediterranean" features. Dodging a suspicious security chief, an imperious clinic exec and a spying Japanese researcher, Sean and Janet gamely decide to "look into this medulloblastoma business." After the predictable chasing around south Florida, Sean holds the clinic head and his bikini-clad wife hostage in a research lab surrounded by cops while conducting experiments to prove that the clinic is involved in a dastardly plot to fake research results. At one point Sean and Janet are trailed by the security chief, two clinic hirelings, three Japanese would-be kidnappers and a psychopath who kills women suffering from breast cancer. As Sean says, "This is worse than Stephen King." Literary Guild main selection.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reader Reviews
Boring, April 13, 2002
Reviewer:
A reader
from Fitchburg, MA USA
I have read quite a few Robin Cook books and have enjoyed most of them, but not this one. I gave up on it after about 120 pages. I just could not get into this one. The story bored me and so did the characters.
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition
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