Contagion [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Cook, Robin
Sold by Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
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Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Near fine
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Add to basketSold by Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since 20 March 2019
Condition: Used - Near fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketNear fine condition white boards, red spine, blue and white front cover decoration/lettering, and blue/red spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Robin Cook; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D., New England Journal of Medicine; Author Acknowledgments and Epilogue. Light fading of the rectangular blue border block spine decoration. The volume is otherwise in fine condition (see photographs). "From the undisputed master of the medical thriller comes the story of a deadly epidemic spread not merely by microbes but by sinister sabotage - a terrifying cautionary tale for the millennium as the health care giants collide. After he loses first his midwestern ophthalmology practice to a for-profit medical giant and then his family to a commuter airline tragedy, Dr. John Stapleton's life is tranformed to ashes. Feeling less the golden boy than a jaded cynic, Stapleton retrains in forensic pathology and relocates to find an uneasy niche for himself in a city that suits his changed perspective: the cold, indifferent, concrete maze of New York. Stapleton thinks he is past pain and past caring, but as a series of virulent and extremely lethal illnesses - capped by a particularly deadly outbreak of a rare strain of influenza - strikes the young, the old, and the innocent, his suspicions are aroused. When the apparent epicenters of these outbreaks are revealed to be hospitals and clinics controlled by the same for-profit giant that cannibalized his old ophthalmology practice, Stapleton fears he has stumbled upon a diabolic conspiracy of catastrophic proportions: Could the for-profit giant be engaged in the systematic elimination of its more costly subscribers? Getting at the truth leads to Stapleton's unlikely pairing - both professionally and personally - with Terese Hage, an art director at a hot Madison Avenue advertising firm. Together they discover that the real explanation behind the killer contagions is even more Machiavellian than could be imagined. Contagion anticipates some of the uncharted consequences of managed health car, in an age when even the wariest consumer may be at risk. It is Robin Cook at his unerring best." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.
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