Dr. Robin Cook is an American doctor and novelist renowned for pioneering the medical thriller genre. He masterfully blends intricate medical knowledge with suspenseful narratives, exploring cutting-edge biotechnology and public health issues. Cook's work often serves to illuminate both the technological frontiers of modern medicine and the complex ethical dilemmas they present. His unique ability to anticipate societal controversies and engage readers with timely topics has solidified his reputation as a compelling voice in contemporary fiction.
To earn some extra money, Debora Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, two financially strapped graduate students, become involved with a Boston fertility clinic in search of egg donors, but they become suspicious about the clinic and its head, Dr. Spencer Windgate, and risk their lives to uncover the truth
Dr Kim Reggis takes his daughter for a special night out to a fast-food restaurant. But the good time turns to tragedy when the young girl becomes ill and dies as a result of E coli poisoning. Kim devotes all his energies to tracing the cause of contamination, against even violent opposition.
Leaving their urban hospital for a modern medical facility in Bartlet, Vermont, Doctors Angela and David Wilson begin to notice puzzling details in the deaths of several terminal patients there
The "New York Times" bestseller is now in paperback. Power, religion, and bioscience collide in the new novel from the master of the medical thriller.
A harrowing medical nightmare on the cutting edge of geneticresearch, Mortal Fear goes into the controversial future of modernmedicine. At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist stumbles upon amiraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough. Soon, healthy,middle-aged patients are dying of old age. And the ultimate experiment interror begins...
New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton returns in the stunning new novel from the master of the medical thriller-a ripped-from-the-headlines tale of an innovative doctor's dangerous downward spiral.
One of Cook's most successful—and timely—bestsellers. Contagion is a terrifying cautionary tale for the millennium as a deadly epidemic is spread not merely by microbes—but by sabotage....
Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier scientist. Their cutting edge research could revolutionize health care; creating replacement organs. Thorough her work with the brilliant molecular geneticist Dr Tobias Rothman, Pia knows she will not only be given the chance to fulfil her professional ambitions - but also maybe finally all push aside memories of her difficult, abusive childhood. However, tragedy strikes in the lab. Pia, with the help of infatuated classmate George Wilson, launches an investigation into the unforeseen calamity in the hospital's supposedly secure biosafety lab. Meanwhile, two ex-Wall Street whiz-kids think they have found another lodestone in the nation's multi-trillion dollar life insurance industry, and race to find ways to control the data - and make a killing. And as Pia and George dig deeper into the events at the lab, matters become increasingly suspicious . . .
