Robin Cook
Author
Series
Pia Grazdani volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
ROBIN COOK--New York Times-best selling author and master of the medical thriller--returns with another crackling tale of unchecked greed, medical malfeasance, adn starling science.
PIA GRAZDANI is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier scientist on cutting-edge research that could revolutionize health care by creating replacement organs for critically ill patients. Thorough her...
2) Abduction
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
The world's bestselling master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook skillfully combines human drama and high-tech thrills with the latest breakthroughs and controversies of modern medicine. Now, in his most daring novel yet, a mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding - a discovery that will change everything we know about life on Earth…...
5) Cell
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A doctor's life gets turned upside by a dangerous new technology in this thought-provoking medical thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author 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. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere...
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. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robin Cook has always been on the cutting edge of the latest medical controversies. In Acceptable Risk, he confronts one of the most provocative issues of our time: personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. Neuroscientist Edward Armstrong has managed to isolate a psychotropic drug with a strange and dark history—one that may account for the public hysteria during the Salem witch trials. In a brilliant designer-drug...
7) Pandemic
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: first, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second, that her DNA matches that of the transplanted heart. Strangely, two more incidences...
8) Marker
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton, under personal and professional stress after their love relationship goes sour, find their very lives in danger when they begin investigating the deaths of a series of seemingly healthy patients who suffered heart failure after undergoing routine surgeries.
9) Critical
Author
Publisher
Putnams
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton are called in to help Doctor Angela Dawson track down the source of a deadly staph infection that threatens to shut down Angela's three successful hospitals, and in the course of their investigation, Laurie and Jack uncover some shocking secrets that could threaten the hospitals' futures.
10) Genesis
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of harnessing DNA from ancestry websites to catch a killer in this timely and explosive new medical thriller"--
11) Crisis
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
New York medical examiner Dr. Jack Stapleton is contacted by his sister requesting his help in a malpractice suit against her husband Craig, a doctor who has, built a practice based on providing personalized care to select patients, and while he is able to prove Craig is not guilty of the charge against him, Jack does learn an even more disturbing fact about his brother-in-law.
12) Toxin
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Cardiac surgeon Dr. Kim Reggis, crazed that cost-cutting procedures at the hospital are keeping his daughter from getting the care he believes she needs to recover from E.coli bacterial poisoning, launches his own investigation into how and why the child got sick.
14) Vital signs
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
A successful doctor with a fairy tale marriage has everything but the child she wants. Obsessed with becoming pregnant, she travels to Hong Kong to explore reproductive technologies and finds she is in incredible danger.
15) Chromosome 6
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Forensic pathologist Dr. Jack Stapleton and his colleague Dr. Laurie Montgomery discover a mysterious cult involved in high-tech experimental medical procedures when they set out to discover the truth about what happened to Carlo Franconi, a mobster who body was stolen from the morgue and later turned up mutilated and minus its liver.
16) Cure
Author
Series
Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery volume 10
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
The New York Times -bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with another heart-pounding story of medical intrigue.
With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work, only to face the case of her career. The investigation into the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham is a professional challenge-and has Laurie's colleagues wondering if she still...
17) Terminal
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
Third year medical student Sean Murphy goes to a renowned cancer treatment center and discovers the horror of their remarkable cures.