Host - Hardcover

Cook, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 144729761X ISBN 13: 9781447297611

Publisher: Macmillan, 2015

Synopsis

The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, takes readers back to where the genre began, with Coma: what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical 'incubators' against their will. Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, she doesn't know it's the last time she will see him whole again. Devastated by Carl's death, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there's more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, Lynn uses all her resources at Mason Dixon-including her initially reluctant lab partner, Edward-to hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice. What she uncovers, however, is far more disturbing. Hospitals associated with Sentinel Healthcare, including the one attached to Mason Dixon, have unnervingly high rates of unexplained anaesthetic complications and patients contracting serious and terminal illness in the wake of routine surgery. When Lynn and Edward begin to receive death threats, they know they're into something bigger than either of them anticipated. They soon enter a desperate race against time for answers before shadowy forces behind Sentinel Healthcare can put a stop to their efforts once and for all.

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Review:

Praise for "Cell"
Rare is the writer who can take us into the fast-paced, miraculous, often bewildering world of modern medicine the way Robin Cook can."" "Cell" is a superbly crafted, full-steam thriller, to be sure, but also a vivid lesson in just how momentous are the advances being made in medicine almost by the day and how highly unsettling are some of the possible consequences.
David McCullough, "New York Times" bestselling author of"The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris"
Robin Cook has been entertaining medical-thriller fans for decades, but he does much more with his latest novel, "Cell" Cook has written a thought-provoking story.
Associated Press"

Engrossing Cook does a good job of making the medicine intelligible. "Publishers Weekly"
A witch's brew of weird science and unbridled greed, Cook's newest medical thriller will boost the blood pressure of anyone facing hospitalization. "Kirkus"

Praise for "Cell"
Rare is the writer who can take us into the fast-paced, miraculous, often bewildering world of modern medicine the way Robin Cook can."" "Cell" is a superbly crafted, full-steam thriller, to be sure, but also a vivid lesson in just how momentous are the advances being made in medicine almost by the day and how highly unsettling are some of the possible consequences.
David McCullough, "New York Times" bestselling author of"The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris"
Robin Cook has been entertaining medical-thriller fans for decades, but he does much more with his latest novel, "Cell" Cook has written a thought-provoking story.
Associated Press"

Spellbinding "Host" is Robin Cook at his very best. "Suspense Magazine"
Engrossing Cook does a good job of making the medicine intelligible. "Publishers Weekly"
A witch's brew of weird science and unbridled greed, Cook's newest medical thriller will boost the blood pressure of anyone facing hospitalization. "Kirkus"
Brutally intense A medical thriller cannot get any better than "Host." Associated Press"

Spellbinding Host is Robin Cook at his very best. Suspense Magazine
Engrossing Cook does a good job of making the medicine intelligible. Publishers Weekly
A witch's brew of weird science and unbridled greed, Cook's newest medical thriller will boost the blood pressure of anyone facing hospitalization. Kirkus
Brutally intense A medical thriller cannot get any better than Host. Associated Press"

"Spellbinding...Host is Robin Cook at his very best."--Suspense Magazine

"Engrossing...Cook does a good job of making the medicine intelligible."--Publishers Weekly

"A witch's brew of weird science and unbridled greed, Cook's newest medical thriller will boost the blood pressure of anyone facing hospitalization."--Kirkus

"Brutally intense...A medical thriller cannot get any better than Host."--Associated Press

Book Description:

'The master of the medical thriller' New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 144729761X
• ISBN 13: 9781447297611
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416