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Shock 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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Shock by Robin Cook
Features
Mass Market Paperback:
352 pages
; Dimensions (in inches): 0.97 x 6.76 x 4.22
Publisher: Berkley Pub Group; (September 3, 2002)
ISBN:
042518286X
Amazon.com
Robin Cook, master of bestselling medical thrillers, answers the "What's the worst thing that could happen?" question in this plot-twisting novel in which villains with no sense of ethics or social responsibility get their greedy hands on the newest cloning technology. It starts when a couple of Harvard graduate students answer the Wingate Clinic's ad for egg donors. The women figure on financing a year in Venice and the down payment on a Boston condo with the extraordinary sum they're promised. But a year later, the heroines feel the emotional need to seek out the children they've made possible for infertile couples. So they disguise themselves and seek jobs at the clinic in order to access the identifying information. The clinic, as it turns out, has plenty of secrets to protect, so it's hard to believe that a pair of computer neophytes could bypass its security. But they do, and the author is an adept enough writer to finesse this detail. As in past books, Cook is much better at the technical details of medical research than he is at characterization, but he definitely knows how to plot a thriller. This one keeps you turning the pages until the final denouement, though the last chapter ends abruptly, leaving the reader to wonder whether he ran out of steam or is just setting up a sequel in which he'll recycle the villains in a new scheme with a new pair of victims. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
A startling novel based on the latest fertility technology, it's "one of the most memorable of Robin Cook's medical thrillers." (The Associated Press)
Reader Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Shockingly bad !, October 20, 2003
Reviewer:
Beverley Strong
from Australia
This is quite possibly the worst book that I've ever read. The dialogue is 1930's English schoolgirl stuff--eg. "my word" said bt a grown, educated woman in her 20's, plus many other equally inane phrases. The story involves crooked doctors at a private clinic cloning babies from donor ovaries, sometimes harvested illegally--eeugh!! I have another book by Robin Cook, waiting to be read-"Yector". I can only hooe that Dr. Cook was having a few bad days when he wrote "Shock".
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