Robin Cook
1) Night Shift
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this exhilarating medical thriller by Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are lured into the dark underbelly of hospital dangers when an internist is murdered"--
2) Viral
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this electrifying new medical thriller from New York Times bestseller Robin Cook, a family's exposure to a rare yet deadly virus puts them at the center of a terrifying danger to mankind--and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by greed and corruption"--
Brian Murphy and his family are enjoying a relaxing summer excursion in Cape Cod when his wife, Emma, comes down with mild flu-like symptoms. Their return home to New York City...
3) Host
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Devastated by the death of her boyfriend after a routine surgery, fourth-year medical student Lynn Pierce investigates the accident and discovers a string of suspicious deaths at the hospital.
4) Charlatans
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"--an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man....
5) Cell
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense. 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 medical...
6) Cure
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery faces the case of her career involving the suspected poisoning murder of a CIA agent and possible links to a powerful pharmaceutical company and start-up stem-cell research labs.
7) Pandemic
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. 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,...
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...
9) Blindsight
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Formats
Description
A forensic pathologist solves a mystery surrounding the black market transplant business.
10) A Brain
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
1982
Language
English
Formats
Description
Both of them suspected that something was wrong—terribly wrong—in the great medical research center where they worked. Both of them wondered why a beautiful young woman had died on the operating table and her brain secretly removed. Both of them found it impossible to explain the rash of female patients exhibiting bizarre mental breakdowns and shocking behavior. Both of them were placing their careers and very lives in deadly jeopardy as they...
11) 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…...
12) Nano
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed as the master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook is a fixture on the New York Times best-seller list. Fans of Death Benefit will welcome the return of embattled medical student Pia Grazdani, who takes a job at a burgeoning nanotech firm in the Rockies. Soon after her arrival on the secretive corporate campus, Pia starts to suspect her company may be using human guinea pigs to fuel its latest billion-dollar medical innovation.
...13) Intervention
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
When his newborn son by his second wife is diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma, New York City forensic pathologist Jack Stapleton seeks to find a cure for his son while at the same time being drawn into a battle between the archbishop of New York and an archeologist--a battle involving what some people believe to be the skeletal remains the Virgin Mary.
14) Foreign body
Author
Series
Jack Stapleton / Laurie Montgomery volume 8
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends Jennifer Hernandez, an idealistic UCLA medical student, on a desperate search for answers about her grandmother's sudden death. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Jennifer's grandmother.
15) Vector
Author
Series
Jack Stapleton / Laurie Montgomery volume 4
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A forensic pathologist solves a mystery involving the anthrax virus.
16) Death benefit
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Behind the prim gates of the Greenwich, Connecticut, McMansions, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Pia Grazdani and George Wilson-two exceptional yet aloof medical residents-are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist...
17) 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"--
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