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Off course you must have heard about this great author. Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word "medical" to the thriller genre, and twenty years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created.
In each of his novels, he strives to write about the issues at the forefront of current medical practice. He has explored various issues such as organ donation, genetic engineering, fertility treatment, in vitro fertilisation, research funding, managed care, drug research, organ transplantation, bioterrorism and extraterrestrial life. He takes controversial medical subjects, turns them into your worst nightmare, and then writes a book about it. He writes unimaginable medical mysteries, which you don't feel like putting down. His work is truly amazing, the story line mind-blowing and the research done worth applause.
Cook says he chose to write thrillers because the form gives him "an opportunity to get the public interested in things about medicine they didn't seem to know about. I believe my books are actually teaching people." I myself have developed interest in biology reading his work although I am not a biology student.
I am a big fan of his and finding no site on him decided to have a section dedicated to him in my homepage. I have done all the research possible to find the story line of as many novels as possible. As I am not a professional I am not rating his work. His work is better appreciated than rated! I am quite sure that you would not be disappointed on reading almost any of his novel. Although a touch of knowledge of biology will do wonders, non-bio-inclined people might also enjoy his work.
Dr Robin Cook was born in New York City and graduated from Wesleyan University and the college of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard.
He has been a professional diver who served as an aquanaut for Sea Lab and worked at Jacques Constean's oceanographic institute in the south of France. Currently on leave of absence from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Institute, he lives in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire with his wife Barbara.
Here is a list of all the novels by Robin Cook, with year of publication, followed by a short summary outlining the basic story, from the back of each novel.
The nurse's voice on the phone is desperate, but young Dr. Peters, in his first weeks of internship, is only bone-tired and a little afraid. He has forgotten when he last slept. Yet he knows that in the coming hours he will have to make life-or-death decisions regarding patients, assist contemptuous surgeons in the operating room, deal with nurses who may know more than he does, cope with worried relatives and friends of the injured and ill, and pretend at all times to be what he has not yet become... a fully qualified doctor.
This book is about what happens to a young intern as he goes through the year that promises to make him into a doctor, and threatens to destroy him as a human being...
<Was made into a successful film>
They call it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others, all admitted to Memorial Hospital for routine procedures, are victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never wake up again. Some traceless error in anaesthesia has caused irreversible brain death, leaving each of them in a hopeless coma. Something is very wrong here. And Susan Wheeler, a beautiful young medical student, hazards her life to uncover the horrifying explanation--a plot so ghastly, so far-reaching, so terrifyingly incredible, yet so nightmarishly possible, it will leave you suspended in a state of fear...
<Was the outcome of his lifelong interest in Egyptology>
Amid the awesome temples in Egypt's Valley of the King, a fabulous treasure is waiting to be discovered. A treasure worth dying- or killing for. Beautiful Egyptologist Erica Baron is mesmerised by a centuries-old statue in a Cairo antique shop and believes she has found the key to a dazzling hoard of untapped treasure. But there are others, more ruthless and corrupt than herself, who are determined to get there first, whatever the cost...
Lost in a deadly web of intrigue and murder, she races to unlock the secret of the unknown pharaoh's tomb and plumb the curse that has kept it intact since time began...
