- School & Library Binding
- Publisher: San Val (February 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0613225759
- ISBN-13: 978-0613225755
- Product Dimensions: 18.3 x 10.7 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 231 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
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From Publishers Weekly
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 suprising 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.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Crusading epidermiologist Marissa is a woman who has it all--except the childshe desperately desires. 2 cassettes.
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2.0 out of 5 stars
COOKIE CRUMBLING,
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This review is from: Vital Signs (School & Library Binding)
Robin Cook is at his best when his medical thrillers stay focused and are more suspenseful. Now Cook is trying to turn his medical thrillers into convoluted espionage thrillers, taking his characters all over the world. Here we go to Australia, Hong Kong and China. Drawn out, unbelievable situations and meandering dialogue draw this book down. I liked the character of Tristan Williams, but both Marissa and Wendy get a little too much, and I can't blame husband Robert for his disdain with Marissa's antics. Of all the Cook books (ha, no pun intended) I've read, this is his least effective.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Hokey and Predictable, and a Wild Goose Chase,
This review is from: Vital Signs (Mass Market Paperback)
This book was okay as a vacation cabin read, but it is not one of Robin Cook's best. I found the plot pretty much predictable, in that the clinic was obviously trying to drum up business by creating a market, and then stringing the customer along to milk them for more cash. It only takes a couple hundred pages before the heroine of the story even gets close to that idea. She also falls for some of the lies quite easily, although she was suspicious about a coverup and evil intentions, she doesn't grok the obvious motive and means until the last few pages. The entertaining part is the traipsing through the clinic, breaking into the computer, and then off to Australia while chased by two bumbling hit-men, and then the heroine and her alter-ego trying to make contact with the triads (the number of watches they went through), before finally figuring out what the Chinese doctors do best. A good rainy day read, but not much of a mystery.
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Not the best of Cook,
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This review is from: Vital Signs (Mass Market Paperback)
I like Robin cook because he makes medical thrillers not police or mafia stories, in this book you will read everything but medical things, and at the end Marissa discovers why so many women can't have children and you don`t know why or how.Every writer must know what to write, and Dr. Cook must write medical thrillers, not other kind of books.
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