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Fatal Cure COOK, ROBIN
United Kingdom Pan Macmillan 1995 0330337025 / 9780330337021
Good , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Doctors Angela and David Wilson believe that they have found personal and professional bliss when they leave the stresses of urban life for a state-of-the art medical centre in Vermont. Swiftly, their happiness disintegrates as mysterious and unexplained deaths become more than coincidences.
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Mortal Fear COOK, ROBIN
United Kingdom Pan Macmillan 1989 0330307606 / 9780330307604
illustrations That this is Cook's first novel with a multiword title doesn't mean that the master of schlock medical thrillers (Coma, Sphinx, Brain, Fever, Outbreak, etc.) has gussied up his formula. No, this is patent, factory-outlet Cook, another delightfully preposterous concoction about a noble M.D. tackling a diabolical conspiracy. When his middle-aged patients rapidly age and then die of diseases of the very old, Dr. Jason Howard is worried. His cares grow when Dr. Alvin Hayes, a world-class researcher and Jason's colleague at GHP - a small medical facility for wealthy Bostonians - himself dies, coughing his bloodstream all over the linen during dinner with Jason. Was Alvin talking true in claiming a major scientific breakthrough that's being used without his OK? In vintage Cook fashion, Jason trades stethoscope for deerstalker in order to find out, but - also in archetypal Cook-hero style - his courage outweighs his commonsense: it takes him an idiotically long time to see the obvious link between Alvin's discovery (something to do with growth hormones, as evidenced by the dog-sized mice in Alvin's lab) and the aging deaths. Jason's energetic but dull detecting sets him against GHP-boss and potential lover Shirley Montgomery; against a homicide dick irked by Jason's meddling; and against a pro killer who rapes/slays Alvin's lab assistant. At Jason's side stands only Alvin's ex-gal, Carol Donner, the only exotic dancer in Boston who really is a "topless college girl" (when not stripping she's working on a Ph.D. at Harvard). Allied in the name of science, doctor and dancer fly to Seattle, where they follow Alvin's trail, romance one another, and elude that killer via an exciting midnight raft ride clown a rapids. Back in Boston, in a slam-bang finish, Jason and Carol confront both the pro killer and the maniac behind the aging deaths (no surprise there) and begin to live happily ever after. A top-grade placebo thriller that for all its inanities offers a swift and entertaining read certain to please Cook's huge following.
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Mutation COOK, ROBIN
United Kingdom Pan Macmillan 1990 0330309781 / 9780330309783
Good , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Another marvel of sheer dumb-fun medical terror by the awesomely silly yet undeniably enthralling Cook (Coma, Mortal Fear, etc.). The premise here is vintage, comic-book-simple Cook: an M.D., Victor Frank, mutates his wife Marsha's fetus and produces a mad/evil child-genius. What's new for Cook is that there's no noble doc fighting the terror here; in fact, there's no central hero at all, with Victor and Marsha shouldering equal burdens as they learn what an Omen-esque lad ten-year-old VJ is (or is he nine? Cook's confused on this point). It takes the parents a lot longer than it does the reader to figure out that VJ's a bad egg; we know it as soon as the kid stares with eyes "as cold and bright as ice" (alternately, "ice blue eyes"), but poor Marsha hasn't a clue, since Victor never told her that he toyed with her genes to make a son with twice the usual number of neurons - and Victor has thought his experiment a flop ever since VJ, at age three, seemed to change overnight from tyke genius to just another bright kid. It's only when two victims of Victor's lab-foolery (he's head honcho of a bioengineering firm, Chimera) drop dead that Marsha, and then Victor, start to think hard about how their other son and the nanny lived in fear of VJ until they suddenly died of a rare liver cancer. Marsha confronts Victor; he confesses his Frankenstein-urges; they face the terrible truth: VJ didn't get dumber at age three, he's just been hiding his smarts, and by now he's actually a rich, murderous Brainiac with a secret underground lab and his own private army on the Chimera grounds - where he grows both cocaine and herds of subhuman slaves in vats. Victor and Marsha just won't put up with this nonsense - leading to their imprisonment by VJ and a semitragic finale. Cook's prose is as awful as ever here as he piles on the adjectives and adverbs and hops points-of-view like a deranged flea. But his uncanny ability to generate Perils-of-Pauline-like suspense and his patent infusion of rich technomedical detail add up to yet another page-flipping if inane read that's sure to delight his many, forgiving fans.
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Shock COOK, ROBIN
United Kingdom Pan Macmillan 2002 0330483056 / 9780330483056
Good , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Cutting-edge technology and personal greed converge in this spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok. Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for donors. Deborah and Joanna figure they can perform a good deed in helping infertle couples, while earning some money for themselves. Although rumours surface of a fellow donor's unexplained disappearance, they remain undeterred. The procedures seem to go smoothly, but second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women discover more. Stymied by the clinic's veil of secrecy, Deborah and Joanna obtain employment there to continue their probe. Working under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying true aims of Dr Windgate's research, immediately putting their lives - and their sanity - irrevocably at risk.
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Shock COOK, ROBIN
London Berkley Books 2001 0333902815 / 9780333902813
Good , 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall. Cutting-edge technology and personal greed converge in this spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok. Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for donors. Deborah and Joanna figure they can perform a good deed in helping infertle couples, while earning some money for themselves. Although rumours Surface of a fellow donor's unexplained disappearance, they remain undeterred. The procedures seem to go smoothly, but second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women discover more, Stymied by the clinic's veil of secrecy, Deborah and Joanna obtain employment there to continue their probe. Working under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying true aims of Dr Windgate's research, immediately putting their lives - and their sanity - irrevocably at risk.
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Vector COOK, ROBIN
United Kingdom, 25 June 1999 Putnam 1999 0333765834 / 9780333765838
Good , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York City cab driver Yuri Davydov is a disgruntled Russian poised to lash out at his adoptive nation. A former biological weapons technician he possesses terrifying knowledge. Can Dr Jack Stapelton get to Davydov before he unleashes his weapon.
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