Bøger af Robin Cook

"Due to Jack Stapleton's ongoing recovery from his near-death confrontation with a serial killer, his wife Laurie Montgomery, the NYC chief medical examiner, is carrying the load both at work and at home. When she insists an underperforming pathology resident named Ryan Sullivan assist her on a suicide autopsy, Laurie unknowingly provokes an emotional storm in the trainee. So, when Ryan himself appears on the medical examiner's table days later, an apparent death by suicide, Laurie's guilt compels her to try to understand why. Jack's autopsy on the resident opens the disturbing possibility that the manner of death wasn't suicide but instead a staged homicide. But staged by whom? Laurie ignores her own professional rules and responsibilities to investigate personally who might want Ryan dead...and for what reason. Thus begins a dangerous inquiry into a fraudulent but highly lucrative cancer diagnostics company, which might just cost Laurie her life"--

In this new fast-paced medical mystery-thriller from The New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie must determine the Manner of Death after a pathology resident's suspicious suicide. Due to Jack Stapleton's ongoing recovery from his near-death confrontation with a serial killer, his wife Laurie Montgomery, the NYC Chief Medical Examiner, is carrying the load both at work and at home. When she insists an underperforming pathology resident named Ryan Sullivan assist her on a suicide autopsy, Laurie unknowingly provokes an emotional storm in the trainee. So, when Ryan himself appears on the medical examiner's table days later, an apparent death by suicide, Laurie's guilt compels her to try to understand why. Jack's autopsy on the resident opens the disturbing possibility that the Manner of Death wasn't suicide but instead a staged homicide. But staged by whom? Laurie ignores her own professional rules and responsibilities to investigate personally who might want Ryan dead...and for what reason. Thus begins a dangerous inquiry into a fraudulent but highly lucrative cancer diagnostics company, which might just cost Laurie her life.

Colleagues turned spouses Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton already have their plates full with crazy work schedules and family pressures. The last thing they need is a murder. When Laurie's longtime friend Dr. Sue Passero dies mysteriously in the hospital parking garage, an autopsy is required, which falls squarely under Laurie's purview as newly appointed chief medical examiner. So when Laurie asks Jack to take special care with the case, he can hardly refuse.

IT S BEEN MORE THAN THIRTY YEARS SINCE NEW YORK CITY MEDICAL EXAMINER JACK STAPLETON S COLLEGE GRADUATION AND ALMOST AS LONG SINCE HE S BEEN IN TOUCH WITH FORMER CLASSMATES SHAWN DOHERTY AND KEVIN MURRAY. ONCE A HIGHLY REGARDED OPHTHALMOLOGIST, JACK S CAREER TOOK A DRAMATIC TURN AFTER A TRAGIC ACCIDENT THAT DESTROYED HIS FAMILY. BUT THAT, TOO, IS VERY MUCH IN THE PAST: JACK HAS REMARRIED-TO LONG-TIME COLLEAGUE AND FELLOW MEDICAL EXAMINER LAURIE MONTGOMERY- AND IS THE FATHER OF A YOUNG CHILD. A POST-MORTEM ON A YOUNG COLLEGE STUDENT WHO HAD RECENTLY BEEN TREATED BY A CHIROPRACTOR, LEADS JACK TO INVESTIGATE ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE. WHAT MAKES SOME PEOPLE STEP OUTSIDE THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT TO SEEK CARE FROM PRACTITIONERS OF EASTERN PHILOSOPHIES AND EVEN FAITH HEALERS? JACK S CLASSMATE SHAWN DOHERTY IS NOW A RENOWNED ARCHAEOLOGIST AND BIBLICAL SCHOLAR AT THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. HE HAS RECENTLY OBTAINED PERMISSION FOR A FINAL DIG BENEATH SAINT PETER S IN ROME-DESPITE A LONG-STANDING GRUDGE AGAINST THE CATHOLIC CHURCH-AND HAS MADE A STARTLING DISCOVERY WITH HUGE ECCLESIASTICAL AND MEDICAL IMPLICATIONS. WHEN KEVIN MURRAY, NOW BISHOP OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW YORK, GETS WIND OF SHAWN'S FINDINGS, HE'S DESPERATE TO KEEP THEM FROM THE PUBLIC. KEVIN HAS STRONG POLITICAL AMBITIONS WITHIN THE CHURCH, BUT HIS ASSOCIATION WITH SHAWN THREATENS TO UNDERMINE THEM. KEVIN TURNS TO HIS OLD FRIEND JACK TO HELP PROTECT AN EXPLOSIVE SECRET-ONE WITH THE POWER TO CHANGE LIVE FOREVER. व्हर्जिन मदर मेरीचे अवशेष ज्या ऑसुअरीत आहेत त्याचा ठावाठिकाणा सांगणारे पत्र एका चलाख पुरातत्त्वज्ञाच्या हाती पडते. त्या ठिकाणी पूर्वी पुरातत्त्व संशोधक म्हणून काम केले असल्याचा फायदा घेऊन त्याच्या रेणुजीवशास्त्रज्ञ असलेल्या तरुण बायकोच्या मदतीने ती ऑसुअरी त्या दुर्गम जागेतून बाहेर काढण्यात तो यशस्वी होतो. तेथून सुरक्षितपणे सुसज्ज अशा प्रयोगशाळेपर्यंत त्या ऑसुअरीचा प्रवास त्याच्या आर्चबिशप असलेल्या मित्&

A medical mystery thriller from the master of the genre, Robin Cook.

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An accessible prose retelling of the medieval German epic brings the wonderful story of Parzival to life for today's readers.

A taut and compelling medical thriller from the master of the genre, Robin Cook.

A gripping medical thriller set in a pioneering Boston hospital where a series of unexpected deaths leads to a terrifying revelation.

The explosive new thriller fromNew York Timesbestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook.Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina's Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death.Devastated by Carl's condition, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there's more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, Lynn uses all her resources at Mason-Dixonincluding her initially reluctant lab partner, Michael Penderto hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice.What she uncovers, however, is far more disturbing. Hospitals associated with Middleton Healthcare, including the Mason-Dixon Medical Center, have unnervingly high rates of unexplained anesthetic complications and patients contracting serious and terminal illness in the wake of routine hospital admissions.When Lynn and Michael begin to receive death threats, they know they're into something bigger than either of them anticipated. They soon enter a desperate race against time for answers before shadowy forces behind Middleton Healthcare and their partner, Sidereal Pharmaceuticals, can put a stop to their efforts once and for all.

Cell is an unnervingly plausible medical thriller from the master of the genre, Robin Cook.George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. A new smartphone app, iDoc, is being developed that is far more than a mere reference tool, rather it is a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating patients more efficiently than the real thing. George's initial collision with this incredible innovation is devastating. He awakens one morning to find his fiancee dead in bed alongside him, not long after she participated in an iDoc beta test. Then several of his patients die after undergoing imaging procedures. All of them had been part of the same beta test. Is it possible that iDoc is being subverted by hackers - and that the US government is involved in a cover-up? Despite threats to both his career and his freedom, George relentlessly seeks the truth, knowing that if he's right, the consequences could be lethal.

Following Robin Cook's Death Benefit, in Nano embattled medical student Pia Grazdani decides to take a year off from her studies and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning field of medical technology, Pia takes a job at Nano, LLC, a lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology institute in the picturesque foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. Nano, LLC is ahead of the curve in the competitive world of molecular manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores, tiny nano-robots with the ability to gobble up viruses and bacteria. But the corporate campus is a place of secrets. When Pia encounters a fellow employee on a corporate jogging path suffering the effects of a seizure, she soon realizes she may have literally stumbled upon one of Nano, LLC's human guinea pigs. Is the tech giant on the cusp of one of the biggest medical discoveries of the twenty-first century - a treatment option for millions - or have they already sold out to the highest bidder?

A New York Times bestselling spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok by master of medical suspense Robin Cook...Two graduate students decide to solve their financial problems by becoming egg donors at an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston’s North Shore. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying aims of its research, immediately putting their lives—and their sanity—irrevocably at risk...