Spasm: A Gripping Medical Thriller from the Master of the Genre (Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery) - Hardcover

Cook, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1035079178 ISBN 13: 9781035079179

Publisher: Macmillan, 2025

Synopsis

From Robin Cook, the ‘master of the medical thriller’ (The New York Times), fan favourites Jack and Laurie return in another fast-paced story about a deadly bioweapon that could disrupt the world order as they know it.

'Masterful . . . Robin Cook is at the top of his game' - Freida McFadden, bestselling author of The Housemaid

When Laurie Montgomery steps down from her position as chief medical examiner at the OCME, she and Jack decide to embark on a weekend getaway. And the timing couldn't be better when they receive a call from Jack’s old peer about a strange death and their potential association with an alarming upswing in Alzheimer’s cases in Essex Falls.

Agreeing to help, Laurie and Jack head upstate to find that Essex Falls is far from the rural idyll of their imagination. The residents appear earnestly intent on returning America to the 1950s. They are told of the deaths of two local troublemakers, who prior to their deaths had both begun to complain of muscle spasms, nausea and off-the-charts anxiety.

As Jack and Laurie investigate, they uncover a terrifying possibility: a dangerous bioweapon. In the wrong hands, it could threaten the lives of the entire town . . . and potentially all of America.

About this title

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1035079178
• ISBN 13: 9781035079179
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352