Robin Cook Books

From the roots of ancient witchcraft emerges a new terror. With billions at stake, scientists race to discover the next 'feel good' drug. Edward Armstrong believes he has found a breakthrough: an effective anti-depressant derived from a bacterial mould discovered over two centuries ago. However, the drug harbors dark secrets. As Edward becomes increasingly violent and mutilated animal corpses surface near the lab, his girlfriend embarks on a quest to uncover the truth behind this so-called 'miracle' drug before it claims more lives. This gripping narrative delves into themes of greed, ethical abandonment, and the dangers of ambition in the realm of cosmetic psychopharmacology. Prozac-like drugs are now being prescribed not just for their intended purposes but also to reshape personalities to fit societal norms. With chilling precision and foresight, the author examines the treacherous crossroads where fame and immense wealth tempt even the most principled individuals. As Edward dates Kimberly Stewart, a descendant of a Salem witch trial victim, he explores a controversial theory: that the "devil" of 1692 was a hallucinogenic drug from mould-tainted grain. To validate his theory, he cultivates the mould from the Stewart estate, transforming it into Ultra, a next-generation antidepressant with astonishing therapeutic potential.

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

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. 250,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild & Doubleday Main. Mystery Guild Alt.

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 . . .

A gripping medical thriller set in New York City, where an apparent death by suicide is not all it seems . . .