Showing Books By Author : Robin Cook

Vector (व्हेक्टर)

NEW YORK CITY CAB DRIVER YURI DAVYDOV IS A DISGRUNTLED RUSSIAN EMIGRE POISED TO LASH OUT AT THE ADOPTIVE NATION HE BELIEVES HAS DENIED HIM THE AMERICAN DREAM. A FORMER TECHNICIAN IN THE SOVIET BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS SYSTEM, BIOPREPARAT, YURI POSSESSES THE KNOWLEDGE TO WREAK HAVOC IN HIS NEW HOME. BUT BEFORE HE EXECUTES HIS PLANNED PIECE DE RESISTANCE OF VENGEANCE, HE EXPERIMENTS FIRST ON HIS SUSPICIOUS LIVE-IN GIRLFRIEND, THEN ON A FEW POOR-TIPPING FARES.... DR. JACK STAPLETON AND DR. LAURIE MONTGOMERY (BOTH LAST SEEN IN CHROMOSOME 6) BEGIN TO WITNESS SOME UNUSUAL CASES IN THEIR CAPACITY AS FORENSIC PATHOLOGISTS IN THE CITY'S MEDICAL EXAMINER'S OFFICE: A YOUNG, HEALTHY BLACK WOMAN DIES OF RESPIRATORY FAILURE, A GREEK IMMIGRANT SUCCUMBS TO A SUDDEN, OVERWHELMING PNEUMONIA. AT THE SAME TIME, THE PAIR ARE PRESSURED FROM ABOVE TO FOCUS ON A HIGH-PROFILE STRING OF SUSPICIOUS DEATHS OF PRISONERS IN POLICE CUSTODY. WHEN AN UNEXPECTED BREAKTHROUGH PERSUADES JACK THAT THESE SEEMINGLY UNRELATED DEATHS ARE REALLY CONNECTED MURDERS, HIS COLLEAGUES AND SUPERIORS ARE SKEPTICAL. ONLY LAURIE IS SOMEWHAT CONVINCED. BUT THE QUESTION SOON BECOMES WHETHER THE PAIR WILL SOLVE THE PUZZLE BEFORE YURI UNLEASHES INTO THE STREETS OF NEW YORK THE ULTIMATE TERROR: A MODERN BIOWEAPON. WITH SIGNATURE SKILL, ROBIN COOK HAS CRAFTED A PAGE-TURNING THRILLER ROOTED IN UP-TO-THE-MINUTE BIOTECHNOLOGY. VECTOR IS ALL-TOO-PLAUSIBLE FICTION AT ITS TERRIFYING BEST.

Manner Of Death

Reeling from a devastating encounter that nearly ended his life, Jack Stapleton is still in recovery leaving his wife Laurie Montgomery, New York’s chief medical examiner, to manage a difficult situation at home and an even tougher one at work. When a young man appears on the medical examiner’s table, an apparent death by suicide, Laurie is compelled to try and understand what happened. The autopsy reveals the disturbing possibility that foul play was involved, and provides many more questions than answers. Ignoring her own professional rules, Laurie personally investigates who might want Ryan dead and why. So begins a descent into a dangerous world filled with ruthless individuals who will do anything to protect their business interests, and that might just cost Laurie her life . . .

Night Shift

Juggling intense work with family pressures, Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery are married doctors with hectic schedules. The last thing they need on their plates is a murder. When Laurie’s long-time friend Dr Sue Passero dies mysteriously in a hospital car park, an autopsy is required. It falls squarely under Laurie’s remit as newly-appointed chief medical examiner but, when Laurie asks Jack to take special care with the examination, he can hardly refuse. As he looks more closely into the case, Jack senses foul play around Sue's sudden death. He sets out to investigate on-site at Manhattan Memorial Hospital, even if it means defying the rules. What starts as an inquiry soon becomes a deadly game of cat-and-mouse – between Jack Stapleton and a deranged killer, ready to strike again . . .

Charlatans (शार्लटन्स)

बोस्टन मेमोरिअल हॉस्पिटलमधील एका लोकप्रिय कर्मचऱ्याचा ऑपरेशन दरम्यान मृत्यू... त्यानंतर आणखी दोन मृत्यू...तीनही वेळेला अॅनेस्थेसियॉलॉजिस्ट म्हणून डॉ. एवा लंडन...... डॉ. नोहा हा सुपर चीफ सर्जिकल रेसिडेन्ट याची चौकशी करतोय... नोहा आणि एवाचं प्रेमप्रकरण...एवाऱ्याभोवती गूढतेचं वलय...अचानक ते दुरावतात...नोहाला निलंबित केलं जातं...त्याचा पाठलाग होत असतो... काय रहस्य असतं एवाचं? नोहाचं निलंबन मागे घेतलं जातं का? उत्कंठावर्धक कादंबरी.

Cell (सेल)

डॉ. जॉर्ज विल्सन एल.ए. युनिव्हर्सिटी मेडिकल सेंटरमध्ये तिसऱ्या वर्षाचा रेडिऑलॉजीचा निवासी डॉक्टर (रेसिडेंट) असतो. अमाल्गमेटेड कंपनीने तीन मोबाईल कंपन्यांच्या साह्याने ‘आयडॉक’ नावाचं एक अ‍ॅप विकसित केलेलं आहे आणि या कंपनीने वीस हजार रुग्णांवर घेतलेल्या बीटा चाचणीविषयी जॉर्जला समजतं. हे समजल्यानंतर जॉर्ज अस्वस्थच असतो. आयडॉककडून वैद्यकीय उपचार घेत असलेल्या सहा जणांचा मृत्यू झाल्यामुळे जॉर्जची अस्वस्थता वाढते. या प्रकरणाच्या मुळाशी जाण्याचं तो ठरवतो. त्यासाठी तो पुरावे गोळा करायला सुरुवात करतो; पण आयडॉकचे निर्माते त्याच्या मार्गात आडवे येतात, त्याला विकत घेऊ पाहतात. ते पुरावे मिळविण्यासाठी तो काय काय उपद्व्याप करतो, त्याचा मित्र झीकडून त्याला कोणती माहिती मिळते, त्याची मैत्रीण पॉला खरंच त्याच्या बाजूने असते का, आयडॉकच्या निर्मात्यांच्या आर्थिक आमिषाला जॉर्ज बळी पडतो का, या प्रश्नांची उत्तरं जाणून घेण्यासाठी ‘सेल’ नक्कीच वाचली पाहिजे.

Blindsight

When a series of unrelated "yuppie" deaths by cocaine overdose are reported to the Medical Examiner's office, Dr Engler's curiosity is aroused. As the deceased's friends swear that their loved ones weren't involved with drugs, Dr Engler's curiosity intensifies. By the author of "Coma".

Viral

In Viral, an electrifying medical thriller from New York Times bestseller Robin Cook, a family’s exposure to a rare yet deadly virus puts them at the centre of a terrifying new danger to mankind – and pulls back the curtain on a health care system powered by greed and corruption. Brian Murphy and his family are enjoying a relaxing summer vacation when his wife, Emma, comes down with mild flu-like symptoms. Their leisurely return home to New York City quickly turns into a race to the ER when her condition dramatically deteriorates. At the hospital, she is diagnosed with Eastern Equine Encephalitis, a rare and highly lethal mosquito-borne viral disease caught during one of their evening cookouts. Worse still, Brian and Emma’s young daughter exhibits alarming signs of the same illness. An already harrowing hospital stay turns even more fraught when Brian receives a staggering hospital bill that his insurer refuses to pay out on, citing dubious clauses in his policy. Forced to choose between the health of his family and bills he can’t afford, and furious at both an indifferent healthcare system and the lack of public awareness about a virus that poses a growing threat, Brian vows to seek justice. As he uncovers the dark side of a historically ruthless industry that preys on the sick and defenceless, it becomes clear he must take his revenge against those responsible by whatever means necessary . . .

Genesis

New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of using DNA tracking to catch a killer in Genesis, an unforgettable medical thriller. When the body of twenty-nine-year-old social worker Gloria Montoya, seven weeks pregnant with her first child, shows up on New York City chief medical examiner Laurie Montgomery’s autopsy table, she’s baffled to find no apparent cause of death. With no clues to go on, Laurie enlists the help of Dr. Tricia Albanese, a forensic pathology resident with a background in genetic science, to help her trace the identity of the unborn baby’s father using DNA from the mother and child. But when Tricia is found dead in her apartment in a manner strikingly similar to Gloria’s death, Laurie realizes she might have two linked homicides on her hands . . . and now it’s up to her – with the help of her husband, forensic pathologist Jack Stapleton – to continue the tracking work Tricia had begun before a killer can strike again.

Cure ( क्युअर)

सातोशी माचिता या जपानमधील जैवतंत्रज्ञान विषयामधील शास्त्रज्ञाची न्यू यॉर्कमधल्या एका सब वे प्लॅटफॉर्मवर बेमालूमपणे हत्या केली जाते. त्याने स्टेम सेल्सच्यासंबंधी लावलेला एक महत्त्वाचा शोध... जपानच्या क्योटो युनिव्हर्सिटीत मिळालेली वाईट वागणूक... बेन कोरी या अमेरिकेतल्या एका कंपनीच्या सीईओने जपानमधील माफियांच्या मदतीने सातोशीला त्याच्या कुटुंबासकट अमेरिकेत आणून करार करणे... अशी सगळी पार्श्वभूमी आहे सातोशीच्या हत्येमागे...न्यू यॉर्कमधल्या ‘ओसीएमई’ या फॉरेन्सिक विभागात काम करत असलेली लॉरी माँटगोमेरी या हत्येचा तपास करायला लागते आणि सुरू होतो जीवघेणा संघर्ष. या संघर्षाचं थरारक चित्रण करणारी उत्कंठावर्धक कादंबरी आहे-क्युअर.

Pandemic

Pandemic is an explosive medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. In New York City, a young, seemingly healthy woman is struck down by a respiratory attack as she heads home on the subway. By the time she arrives in Manhattan, she’s dead. She ends up on forensic pathologist Jack Stapleton’s autopsy table, which reveals surprising findings about the cause of death. Fearing the woman’s case could be the first in a severe outbreak of a deadly airborne virus, Jack works in overdrive for a diagnosis. As the inconclusive tests come back, Jack urges his wife, and chief medical examiner, Dr. Laurie Montgomery, to sound the alarm at the mayor’s office, concerned that more cases may follow. When further cases do occur around the city, and then in Los Angeles, London and Rome, Jack enters a race against time to discover the link that connects all the victims before it’s too late . . .

Crisis (क्रायसिस)

Intervention ( इंटरव्हेन्शन)

Charlatans

Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as ???hybrid operating rooms of the future??????an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man. Noah suspects Dr. William Mason, an egotistical, world-class surgeon, of an error during the operation and of tampering with the patient???s record afterward. But Mason is quick to blame anesthesiologist, Dr. Ava London. When more anesthesia-related deaths start to occur, Noah is forced to question all of the residents on his staff, including Ava, and he quickly realizes there???s more to her than what he sees. A social-media junkie, Ava has created multiple alternate personas for herself on the Internet. With his own job and credibility now in jeopardy, Noah must decide which doctor is at fault and who he can believe???before any more lives are lost. An explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook

Brain

Host

Vital Signs

Where life begins, terror lurks... Only Robin Cook, acknowledged master of the techno-medical thriller, could have written this supremely chilling novel about the passion to create life—and the power to destroy it. Millions of readers met crusading epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal in the pages of the bestselling Outbreak. Now Robin Cook brings back his feisty heroine in a gripping new tale, Vital Signs—a roller-coaster ride into the unexpected and the utterly unconscionable. In the eyes of her envious peers, Marissa has it all: a superb professional reputation, a flourishing pediatrics practice, even a fairy-tale marriage with the man of her dreams—Robert Buchanan, an entrepreneur involved in health-care administration and research. But there is one thing Marissa does not have: the child she desperately desires. And when tests confirm that her sealed fallopian tubes have rendered her infertile, her perfect world begins to crumble. Obsessed with becoming pregnant, Marissa barely even notices the disastrous effect her idée fixe is having on her marriage and career. When a little medical sleuthing points to suspicious origins of her infertility, Marissa boldly challenges the law. Along with Wendy, a new friend with a similar infertility problem, she breaks into a fertility clinic, travels to Australia, a center of in-vitro fertilization, then on to Hong Kong. The two women's exploration of the brave new world of reproductive technologies takes a shocking turn when Wendy is violently killed—and Marissa's own life is mysteriously threatened. But personal danger does not deter her, and she allows herself to be drawn into the dark vortex of the baby-making business, where a woman's dearest dream turns slowly, agonizingly to dread... Timely, top-notch suspense that will grip the reader from the very first page, Vital Signs proves once again the unique and compelling genius of Robin Cook.

Fatal Cure

Doctors Angela and David Wilson believe that they have found personal and professional bliss when they leave the stresses of urban life for a state-of-the art medical centre in Vermont. Swiftly, their happiness disintegrates as mysterious and unexplained deaths become more than coincidences.

Critical

Angela Dawson's chain of hospitals is threatened by a series of mysterious drug-resistant staph infections. Her carefully crafted world begins to crumble and she can only count on herself. New York medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton join the investigation, one so critical because Jack's facing surgery at Angels Orthopedic hospital. Laura's investigation leads her into a corporate scheme that can cripple her world forever.

Shock

Two graduate students decide to solve their financial problems by becoming egg donors at an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston’s North Shore. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying aims of its research, immediately putting their lives—and their sanity—irrevocably at risk…

Godplayer

Dr. Cassandra Kingsley is about to discover that neither her marriage nor her job is what she thought. And when she sets out to find the truth, it may just kill her.

Mortal Fear-Death Is Their Glory

Jason Howard used his career as a doctor to escape a private tragedy. Until his own patients started dying from massive heart attacks. When his own colleague becomes the next victim, Jason is finally forced to act. A decision that could cost him his life ... Before his death, Doctor Alvin Hayes had been on the verge of a secret medical breakthrough. What was one more murder to the conspirators who had inherited his crown?

Mindbend-The Soul Of Evil

Utterly chilling. Frighteningly plausible. A classic of medical horror that could come only from Robin Cook. When young dancer Jennifer Schonberg becomes pregnant by accident, her feelings are mixed—but her husband, Adam, is far more ambivalent. For Adam, a third-year medical student already in financial straits, the loss of Jennifer's income and the cost of the coming child mean he must drop out of medical school—on the eve of becoming a doctor. Against the advice of his teachers, his colleagues, and his wife most of all, Adam takes a job as a salesman for the vastly powerful drug company Arolen Pharmaceuticals, whose influence is known to penetrate deep into the physician's world. But just how awesome Arolen's control is over the medical profession Adam is yet to discover. It will become all too clear in a series of increasingly terrifying revelations: corruption old as greed itself; bizarre brutality searing as a futuristic vision of hell; the preservation of life turned to a deadly purpose. And awaiting him at the end of his violent odyssey is a confrontation grave beyond imagining, in which the survival of Jennifer's unborn child hangs in the balance as Adam fights to save his family—and the soul of medicine—from the overwhelming evil that is Mindbend. Moving from gleaming hospital corridors that shelter dark secrets to luxurious cruise ships that are not what they seem, from action-packed chases to scenes of spell-binding scientific terror, Mindbend will draw all those who read so much as a page into its web of irresistible suspense—and hold them fast.

Cell.

George Wilson, M.D. a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is called iDoc. Georges initial collision with this incredible innovation is devastating. He awakens one morning to find his fiancee dead in bed alongside him, not long after she participated in an iDoc beta test. Then several of his patients die after undergoing imaging procedures. All of them had been part of the same beta test. Is it possible that iDoc is being subverted by hackers and that the US government is involved in a cover up? Despite threats to both his career and his freedom, George relentlessly seeks the truth, knowing that if hes right, the consequences could be lethal. The author returns with a top notch fusion of ground breaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense.

Nano

After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her medical studies and escape New York City. Intrigued by the promise of the burgeoning field of medical technology and the chance to clear her head in the cool air of Colorado, Pia takes a job at Nanobots, a lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology institute in the picturesque foothills of the Rockies. Nanobots is ahead of the curve in the competitive world of molecular manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores, tiny nano robots with the ability to gobble up viruses and bacteria. But the corporate campus, for all its beauty, is a place of secrets. She's warned by her boss not to investigate the other work being done at the gigantic facility, nor to ask questions about the source of the seemingly endless capital that funds the institute's research. And when Pia encounters a fellow employee on a corporate jogging path, suffering the effects of a seizure, she soon realizes she may have literally stumbled upon one of Nanobots' human guinea pigs. Is the tech giant on the cusp of one of the biggest medical discoveries of the 21st century a treatment option for millions or have they already sold out to the highest bidder?