Robin Cook, Author Putnam $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-14471-4
In this age of lethal bioweapons, there's a frightening logic in the idea that your next breath might kill you. Alas, Cook's latest, about an impending bioterrorist attack in New York City, is more ho-hum than horrifying. The premise has promise:...
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Robin Cook. Putnam, $26.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-399-15746-2
In this formulaic medical thriller from bestseller Cook (Coma), Pia Grazdani, a 26-year-old Columbia Medical School student who’s overcome a difficult childhood to emerge as a brilliant, beautiful, if still troubled adult, attracts the interest of...
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Robin Cook, Author Berkley Trade Pub $7.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-15540-0
There are certain similarities between science fiction and medical thrillers (futuristic technology, nature subverted) so it's not really surprising that a master of the medical genre like Cook (Acceptable Risk) would try to combine the two....
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Robin Cook, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-399-13481-4
When a mother and her newborn infant die from the anesthetic he has administered, Boston anesthesiologist Dr. Jeffrey Rhodes's life turns into a shambles. Within months he has been financially destroyed in a malpractice suit and convicted of second-d
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Robin Cook, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (367p) ISBN 978-0-399-13402-9
Like many of Cook's earlier novels ( Coma , Brain , Fever ), this overheated medical thriller covers a hokey, old-fashioned contrivancethe creation of a mad scientist runs amokwith a veneer of cutting-edge technology. The result resembles an ancient,
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Robin Cook, Author Putnam Publishing Group $4.98 (366p) ISBN 978-0-399-13187-5
Despite inept prose and an overload of synthetic crises, Cook's new novel will probaby be popular with fans of Coma, Godplayer and his other thrillers. The heroine is gutsy, naive Dr. Melissa Blumenthal of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta....
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Robin Cook, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.99 (402p) ISBN 978-0-425-17736-5
A mountain far beneath the ocean is the setting in this latest work from bestselling author Cook (Coma; Contagion; Vector, etc.). Perry Bergman, founder and president of Benthic Marine, is conducting research in a remote region of the Atlantic. The...
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Robin Cook, Author Berkley $7.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-12546-5
An anesthesiologist, blamed for the deaths of a mother and her newborn infant, discovers that he has been framed for murder. ``This is a fast-paced, albeit improbable, story'' until ``a sudden twist . . . reveals an evil conspiracy that snaps belief,
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Robin Cook, Putnam, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-15662-5
Organized crime, international espionage, and kidnapping only mildly enliven Cook's methodical ninth medical thriller featuring husband-and-wife medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton (after Intervention). Laurie's first case back in
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Robin Cook, Author . Putnam $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-399-14600-8
The medical thriller has come a long way since Cook and Michael Crichton invented it: recent practitioners like Tess Gerritson have polished it into a powerful dramatic and social engine. Alas, Cook appears to have gotten off at the wrong station or
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Robin Cook, Author Putnam $22.95 (447p) ISBN 978-0-399-13879-9
If Cook's skills as a writer were as finely tuned as his sense of timing, his 14th medical thriller (after Terminal ) would be a lot more rewarding. Current political events guarantee that a suspense novel centering on health care management will be
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Robin Cook, Author Putnam $21.95 (445p) ISBN 978-0-399-13771-6
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
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Robin Cook, Author Putnam $21.95 (429p) ISBN 978-0-399-13645-0
Cook's lack of ability as a stylist generally has been masked by his talent for fashioning a solid medical drama--often ripped from current headlines--that keeps readers turning pages. Unfortuately, that's not the case in his 12th novel (after Vital
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Robin Cook, Author Putnam $21.95 (396p) ISBN 978-0-399-13575-0
Cook's popular medical thrillers are designed, in part, to keep the public aware of both the technological possibilities of modern medicine and the ensuing ethical problems. His topic this time is reproductive science and the often murky baby-making
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Robin Cook, Author . Putnam $25.95 (387p) ISBN 978-0-399-15570-3
In this uneven medical thriller from bestseller Cook (Foreign Body
), Dr. Jack Stapleton, a New York City forensic pathologist who lost his first wife and their two children in a plane crash, is devastated when his newborn son by his second wife is...
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Robin Cook, Author Putnam $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-15502-4
Bestseller Cook (Critical
) stumbles in this formulaic thriller about the timely subject of medical tourism, the trend in which U.S. citizens seek to save costs on expensive surgery through treatment overseas. At the center of the drama is Jennifer...
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Robin Cook, Author . Putnam $25.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-399-15423-2
Last seen in 2006's Crisis
, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery diligently investigates an abrupt rise in infection deaths at the start of bestseller Cook's lively new thriller. All the deaths can be traced to three Manhattan
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Robin Cook, Author . Putnam $25.95 (468p) ISBN 978-0-399-15357-0
Bestseller Cook's latest medical thriller focuses on a timely topic—the new and controversial "concierge" medicine that caters to the affluent willing and able to pay for special attention. When Patience Stanhope, a hypochondriac...
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Robin Cook, Author . Putnam $25.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-399-15293-1
The bestselling physician/author is in top form as he revisits the love/hate relationship between New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and her lover, Jack Stapleton (last seen in 1999's Vector
) in this gripping medical chiller....
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Robin Cook, Author . Simon & Schuster $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6423-5
Cook made headlines last spring as one of those who resigned from Tony Blair's cabinet in protest over the coming Iraq war. There's a lot in this diary of the past two years about his growing feelings against the war, his objections largely...
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Robin Cook, Author . Putnam $24.95 (480p) ISBN 978-0-399-14876-7
Cook constructs a promising yet ultimately wearying plot around the issue of therapeutic cloning, picking up where his last novel, Shock, left off. Readers are once again privy to the morally questionable goings on at the Wingate Infertility Clinic...
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Robin Cook, Author, George Guidall, Read by , read by George Guidall. Penguin Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305870-0
Guidall's experienced reading brings a pleasant touch of class to Cook's latest thriller. A distinguished and self-confident physician, Craig Bowman is delivered an ego-shattering blow when he is sued for malpractice by the husband of one of
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Robin Cook. Putnam, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-399-16082-0
This accomplished if familiar medical thriller from bestseller Cook picks up the story of doctor-to-be Pia Grazdani after her horrific experiences in 2011’s Death Benefit, which included being abducted and witnessing a colleague, Will McKinley,...
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Robin Cook. Putnam, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-16630-3
By combining plausible developments in artificial intelligence with current concerns about the number of available general practitioners, Cook (Nano) has produced one of his better recent thrillers. L.A. radiology resident George Wilson is racked...
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Robin Cook. Putnam, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-399-17214-4
Bestseller Cook’s engrossing medical thriller revisits themes from 1977’s Coma. Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at the Mason-Dixon University Medical Center in Charleston, S.C., has her life upended when her lawyer boyfriend, Carl...
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Robin Cook. Putnam, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1248-0
Dr. Noah Rothauser, the lead of this suspenseful medical thriller from bestseller Cook (Host), is thrilled to become the chief resident at Boston Memorial, one of the country’s preeminent teaching hospitals. The one cloud on the horizon is the...
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Robin Cook. Putnam, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-53533-1
When a seemingly healthy woman collapses on a subway train in Manhattan and dies shortly afterward from an unknown cause, New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton, the hero of this unremarkable thriller from bestseller Cook (Charlatans),...
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Robin Cook. Putnam, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-54215-5
The sleuthing overshadows the mystery in bestseller Cook’s routine 11th medical thriller featuring Laurie Montgomery (after 2018’s Pandemic). Montgomery, New York City’s chief medical examiner, has her usual full plate at work and at home: her...
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Robin Cook. Putnam, $27 (432p) ISBN 978-0-593-32829-3
In this disappointing thriller from bestseller Cook (Genesis), New Yorkers Brian and Emma Murphy are vacationing on Cape Cod when Emma is bitten by an Asian tiger mosquito. Emma has violent seizures on the drive back to New York, where Brian takes...
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Robin Cook. Putnam, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-54018-3
In the opening chapter of bestseller Cook’s so-so 12th medical thriller featuring married physicians Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery (after 2019’s Genesis), an unidentified attacker kills internist Susan Passero in her car at the Manhattan...
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Robin Cook. Putnam, $29 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593713-89-1
Cook’s subpar 14th outing for married medical examiners Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery (after 2022’s Night Shift) makes the baffling choice to reveal that former Navy SEAL Hank Roberts has killed financial adviser Sean O’Brien on behalf of a...
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Robin Cook. Putnam, $30 (352p) ISBN 978-0-593-71883-4
Bestseller Cook (Viral) proves better at describing the day-to-day work of a medical resident than in generating scares in this limp horror novel set in Manhattan’s Bellevue Hospital. Mitt Fuller has landed a spot in Bellevue’s prestigious surgical...
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