In this age of lethal bioweapons, there's a frightening logic in the idea that your next breath might kill you. Alas, Cook's latest, about an impending bioterrorist attack in New York City, is more ho-hum than horrifying. The premise has promise: cab driver Yuri Davydov is a disillusioned Russian immigrant haunted by his involvement in a tragic accidental release of government-produced anthrax that killed hundreds, including his mother. Armed with hatred for America and practical skills in how to build a biochemical weapon, he's joined forces with Curt Rogers and Steve Henderson of the People's Aryan Army.
Mindbend is a novel by the novelist Robin Cook first published in 1985.
Arolen is a giant pharma company, expanding at rapid pace and bringing more and more doctors into its clutches. Once doctors go on CME onboard a cruise organised by Arolen, they come back totally changed, in personality and opinions. Strangely many of them opt for job in Julian Clinic, even at the cost of leaving their lucrative private practices. Incidentally number of therapeutic abortions at the Julian Clinic are also rising. Hero of the novel, Dr Adam Schoneberg, has to leave his medical education midway for want of money as his wife becomes pregnant
Get drawn into a novel of medical suspense that begins with these chilling questions: Who ends up with the blood samples you routinely give for tests? What else are they being used for? Why don't you know?
The man they were to kidnap in Brazil had not always been called Silva. As a lawyer, Patrick S. Lanigan, his previous life had ended in a car crash in 1992. But six weeks after his death, $90 million disappeared from his law firm. It was then that his partners knew he was still alive. An unputdownable thriller by the current master of the genre, John Grisham.
In his bestselling novels, from The Sisterhood to Natural Causes, physician Michael Palmer has drawn on years of firsthand emergency-room experience to create the drama of a frighteningly authentic world - a world where the line between medicine and murder is scalpel-thin. Now, in Silent Treatment - his most harrowing suspense novel yet, Palmer reveals how the power to heal can become a license to kill.... Silent Treatment will keep your pulse racing from beginning to end.
