Acceptable Risk - Hardcover

Cook, Robin

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ISBN 10: 0333642236 ISBN 13: 9780333642238

Publisher: Macmillan, 1995

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With billions of dollars at stake, every scientist in America is fighting to discover the next Prozac, the latest "feel good" drug. Using bacterial mould first uncovered during the Salem witch trials, Edward Armstrong isolates a stunningly effective anti-depressant.

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Book Description:

From the doctor whose bestselling thrillers have created fear and excitement for over a decade comes a harrowing tale of ambition, abandoned ethics and uncontrollable greed.

'The master of the medical thriller' New York Times

About the Author:

Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word ‘medical’ to the thriller genre, and decades after the publication of his 1977 breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce over thirty international bestsellers, including Outbreak, Terminal, Contagion, Chromosome 6, Foreign Body, Intervention and Cure.

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