Book Preview Year of the Intern Robin Cook The First Word Americans cling to their myths. Nowhere is this more evident than in the emotion-charged realm of medicine and medical care. People believe what they want to believe, what they have always believed, and either ignore or dismiss as false anything … Read more
Book Preview Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul. Helen Cabot gradually awoke as dawn emerged from the winter darkness blanketing Boston, Massachusetts. Fingers of pale, anemic light pierced the darkness of the third-floor bedroom in her parents’ Louisburg Square home. At first she didn’t open her eyes, luxuriating under the down … Read more
Book Preview It was the magic and mystery of an empire long past that beautiful Erica Baron came to explore. Innocently she cast her eyes in forbidden places and discovered the clue to a treasure beyond imagination. It was then that terror overtook her, as the most fearful curse of the ancient world and the … Read more
Book Preview The human egg cell, or oocyte, that was snared by the slight suction exerted through the blunt end of the holding pipette was no different from its approximately five dozen siblings. It was merely the closest to the end of the tiny glass rod when the rod came into the technician’s view. The … Read more
Book Preview Titles by Robin Cook SEIZURE SHOCK ABDUCTION FEVER GODPLAYER VECTOR TOXIN INVASION CHROMOSOME 6 CONTAGION ACCEPTABLE RISK FATAL CURE TERMINAL BLINDSIGHT VITAL SIGNS HARMFUL INTENT MUTATION MORTAL FEAR OUTBREAK MINDBEND BRAIN SPHINX COMA THE YEAR OF THE INTERN SEIZURE SHOCK ABDUCTION FEVER GODPLAYER VECTOR TOXIN INVASION CHROMOSOME 6 CONTAGION ACCEPTABLE RISK FATAL CURE … Read more
Book Preview TITLES BY ROBIN COOK CHARLATANS HOST CELL NANO DEATH BENEFIT CURE INTERVENTION FOREIGN BODY CRITICAL CRISIS MARKER SEIZURE SHOCK ABDUCTION VECTOR TOXIN INVASION CHROMOSOME 6 CONTAGION ACCEPTABLE RISK FATAL CURE TERMINAL BLINDSIGHT VITAL SIGNS HARMFUL INTENT MUTATION MORTAL FEAR OUTBREAK MINDBEND GODPLAYER FEVER BRAIN SPHINX COMA THE YEAR OF THE INTERN CHARLATANS HOST … Read more
Book Preview A TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Yale biology student by the name of John Nordyke woke up at dawn at the edge of a village north of Bumba, Zaire. Rolling over in his sweat-drenched sleeping bag, he stared out through the mesh flap of his nylon mountain tent, hearing the sounds of the tropical rain forest mixed … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY ROBIN COOK Death Benefit Cure Intervention Foreign Body Critical Crisis Marker Seizure Shock Abduction Vector Toxin Invasion Chromosome 6 Contagion Acceptable Risk Fatal Cure Terminal Blindsight Vital Signs Harmful Intent Mutation Mortal Fear Outbreak Mindbend Godplayer Fever Brain Sphinx Coma The Year of the Intern ALSO BY ROBIN COOK Death Benefit … Read more
Book Preview “HOW DARE YOU SPORT THUS WITH LIFE.” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Frankenstein (1818) ENERGY had been building within the millions of neurons since they’d first formed six months previously. The nerve cells were sizzling with electrical energy steadily galvanizing toward a voltaic threshold. The arborization of the nerve cells’ dendrites and the supporting microglia … Read more
Book Preview “A chilling odyssey into the origins of life—and death.” At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist stumbles upon a miraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough. Soon, healthy. middle-aged patients are dying of old age. And the ultimate experiment in terror begins … “Page-turning action … reaches out and grabs you!” —Richmond Times-Dispatch … Read more
Book Preview Mindbend By Robin Cook For Barbara PROLOGUE FETAL RESEARCH BANNED ——————————————————————————– New Regulations for Medical Research ——————————————————————————– By HAROLD BARLOW ——————————————————————————– Special to The New York … Read more
Book Preview MARKER Robin Cook G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS Publishers Since 1838 Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA • Penguin Group (Canada), 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M4V 3B2, Canada (a division of Pearson Penguin Canada Inc.) … Read more
Book Preview Invasion might be my most fun book, at least from the point of view of the writing process. In contrast to my more typical medical mystery/thrillers where I’m constrained by the need for medical/scientific accuracy to bolster my underlying social message- with Invasion I was able to enjoy the entertaining opportunity to indulge … Read more
Book Preview New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook returns with another ripped-from-the-headlines medical thriller, where DNA science, biotechnology, and religion collide. It’s been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton’s college graduation and almost as long since he’d been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Once … Read more
Book Preview ALSO BY ROBIN COOK Cell Nano Death Benefit Cure Intervention Foreign Body Critical Crisis Marker Seizure Shock Abduction Vector Toxin Invasion Chromosome 6 Contagion Acceptable Risk Fatal Cure Terminal Blindsight Vital Signs Harmful Intent Mutation Mortal Fear Outbreak Mindbend Godplayer Fever Brain Sphinx Coma The Year of the Intern The Year of the … Read more
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Book Preview Titles by Robin Cook GODPLAYER VECTOR TOXIN INVASION CHROMOSOME 6 CONTAGION ACCEPTABLE RISK FATAL CURE TERMINAL BLINDSIGHT VITAL SIGNS HARMFUL INTENT MUTATION MORTAL FEAR OUTBREAK MINDBEND FEVER BRAIN SPHINX COMA THE YEAR OF THE INTERN GODPLAYER VECTOR TOXIN INVASION CHROMOSOME 6 CONTAGION ACCEPTABLE RISK FATAL CURE TERMINAL BLINDSIGHT VITAL SIGNS HARMFUL INTENT MUTATION … Read more
Book Preview It was a cold, raw, windy, and heavily overcast March night on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Although the spring equinox was soon to arrive, winter had not given up. As evidence, a few wayward snowflakes swirled down out of the low cloud cover, which was churning like a witch’s brew. With … Read more