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Intervention (Paperback)

by Robin Cook (Author)

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Product Details

Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Macmillan; Open market, Australia and New Zealand ed edition (Aug 7 2009)
ISBN-10: 0230743641
ISBN-13: 978-0230743649
Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 15.2 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 522 g

Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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After performing a post-mortem on a young college student who'd been recently treated by a chiropractor, Jack Stapleton, a New York City medical examiner, decides to explore alternative medicine. What makes people seek help from Eastern philosophies or even faith healers to cure their illnesses? Meanwhile, his old college friend, Shawn Doherty, a renowned archaeologist involved in a dig at St Peter's in Rome, has made a startling discovery with huge ecclesiastical and medical implications. When Kevin Murray, another old college friend, and now Roman Catholic Bishop of New York, gets wind of Shawn's findings, he's desperate to keep them from the public and to disassociate himself from Shawn. Kevin turns to his old friend Jack to help protect this explosive secret - one with the power to change lives forever.

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Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word 'medical' to the thriller genre, and over 20 years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fantasy to produce over 27 international bestsellers, including Outbreak (1987), Terminal (1993), Contagion (1996), Chromosome 6 (1997) and most recently Foreign Body (2008).

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1.0 out of 5 stars A disaster., Sep 20 2009

By	Robert D. Vernon (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Intervention (Hardcover)

Robin Cook has written some excellent books, but Intervention is not one of them. Not by any stretch of the imagination. The writing is some the worst I've read in a long time, and I can't help wondering how this ever survived editing by his publisher. Do not waste your time or your money on this disaster of a novel.
Rather than detail the fatal faults of this work, I would prefer that readers seek other of Cook's novels instead. Any one of which will likely prove satisfying. Intervention, on the other hand, is best forgotten. (And don't be tempted when it finds its way into the remainder bin at bargain basement prices; any time spent reading this book will be wasted. It's really that bad.)

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1.0 out of 5 stars IT'S BAD, Nov 9 2009

By	Moolatte (Westmount, Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Intervention (Hardcover)

I have to agree with the first reviewer. It is terrible. I love all of Robin Cook's books, however, this one is bad.

The story starts out well; Jack and Laurie's son was born with a rare form of infantile cancer. Jack is devestated, and can hardly work as his stress level is so high. One of his cases involves a woman who has died after visiting a chiropracter and Jack is determined to find out exactly what has happened. He visits the chiropracter and the story gets interesting. However, there is a parallel story about a former friend of Jack's who is in Egypt and discovers some ancient artifact which is totally boring and unrelated to the medical story. I found myself skipping the chapters of the artifact story and just (trying) to read the chapters on Jack's story. If it weren't for this parallel story, I think the book would have been a great story, as is usually the case with Dr. Cook's books. I strongly recommend "Foreign Body". This book by Dr. Cook was great; a great story and you learn about Indian culture too.

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