Viral – Cook, Robin

Book Preview Titles by Robin Cook Genesis Pandemic 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 … Read more

Vector – Cook, Robin

Book Preview Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery, the dueling forensic pathologists who bounced off each other in Cook’s Chromosome 6, collide and combine once again as a mad Russian cabdriver, who used to work in a Moscow bio-weapons factory, comes up with a plan to punish America for not welcoming him with open arms. The … Read more

Toxin – Cook, Robin

Book Preview I would like to acknowledge: Bruce Berman, for his suggestions at the outset of this project as well as his insightful critique of the outline for Toxin; Nikki Fox, for sharing with me her extensive research on food-borne illness; Ron Savenor, for helping me overcome a particular barrier in my own research; and … Read more

The Year of the Intern – Cook, Robin

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

Terminal – Cook, Robin

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

Sphinx – Cook, Robin

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

Shock – Cook, Robin

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

Seizure – Cook, Robin

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

Pandemic – Cook, Robin

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

Outbreak – Cook, Robin

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

Nano – Cook, Robin

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

Mutation – Cook, Robin

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

Mortal Fear – Cook, Robin

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

Mindbend – Cook, Robin

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

Marker – Cook, Robin

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

Invasion – Cook, Robin

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

Intervention – Cook, Robin

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