- Vital Signs Robin Cook Hardcover Medical Thriller
- Author: Robin Cook
- Hardcover: 396 pages
- Publisher: Putnam Adult; First Edition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 edition (January 3, 1991)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0399135758
- ISBN-13: 9780399135750
- Genre: Fiction, Suspense
Product Description
Cook's popular medical thrillers are designed, in part, to keep the public aware of both the technological possibilities of modern medicine and the ensuing ethical problems. His topic this time is reproductive science and the often murky baby-making business. Epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal, seen before in Outbreak , now has a successful pediatrics practice near Boston and an affluent health-care-entrepreneur husband. But her inability to become pregnant threatens both her marriage and her career. After unsuccessful visits to a local fertility clinic, she discovers a surprising and suspicious link between her medical records and those of an inordinate number of the clinic's clients. Traveling to Australia to learn more about a worldwide in vitro fertilization organization, Marissa and her friend Wendy are trailed, and a tragedy occurs. Marissa, now accompanied by the physician whose work she had come to Australia to investigate, goes to Hong Kong and eventually China--fleeing murderous assailants every step of the way--before a billion-dollar international scam is revealed. As always, Cook enlivens predictable action and shallow characterization with medical expertise and timely subject matter.
About the Author
Dr. Robin Cook, A graduate of the Columbia University Medical School, finished his post-graduate medical training at Harvard. He lives and writes in Florida.
This Book is in Very Good Condition. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket and a few wrinkled pages inside. Original MSRP: $21.95 USA / $28.95 Canada
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