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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. --Ce texte provient d'une édition qui n'est plus publiée ou qui est non diponible.


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Here is Robin Cook's most controversial medical thriller-the shocking story of experimental fertilization, the passion to create life, and the power to destroy it.

Just what the doctor ordered. (New York Daily News)

Vintage Cook...Nonstop action. (Kirkus Reviews) This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 COOKIE CRUMBLING, Fév 13 2004
Par Michael Butts (Martinsburg, WV USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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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.
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2.0étoiles sur 5 Hokey and Predictable, and a Wild Goose Chase, Juil 16 2003
Par C. Chu - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Vital Signs (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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2.0étoiles sur 5 Not the best of Cook, Fév 10 2003
Par Jorge Frid (Mexico City) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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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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2.0étoiles sur 5 Disappointing
And very predictable. I've read quite a few of Robin Cook's earlier books and this one started out promisingly enough. Read more
Publié le Avril 18 2002 par J. Metcalfe

5.0étoiles sur 5 I thought it was a very good book
I was disapponted to find out that this book was kida similar to his newer book 'Shock' I would reccomend this book but read this book before shock. Read more
Publié le Avril 7 2002 par Betsy Harloff

3.0étoiles sur 5 A little lacking
This one was not exactly up to par. It was a little far fetched and you knew the end at least halfway into the book. Read more
Publié le Nov. 10 2001 par C. West

1.0étoiles sur 5 Don't waste your time
This is probably the worst book I have ever read. I couldn't tell one character from another, the dialogue was trite and the plot was unbelievable and boring. Read more
Publié le Nov. 7 2001

4.0étoiles sur 5 Fact and Fiction
Being a fan of medical thrillers and Robin Cook in particular I can understand the frustration som readers have felt that this book is not believable. Read more
Publié le Juil 15 2001 par T. Gardener

3.0étoiles sur 5 answer pleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaasee
all i want to know is WHERE THE BOOK TOOK PLACE??? where did she live at the very beginning????? i read this book for american lit..... Read more
Publié le Mai 17 2001 par mary

4.0étoiles sur 5 A medical mystery that will keep you entertained.
Not one of Robin Cook's best for sure, but it is an old one, and he has since improved. The basic plot is that a large Mafia type organization has somehow conspired to obtain an... Read more
Publié le Avril 4 2001 par Betti Trapp

2.0étoiles sur 5 Disappointing
Although the subject matter of this book, in-vetro fertilization and the corruption of the experimental fertilization industry, is highly interesting and controversial, the book... Read more
Publié le Déc 6 2000 par llamachief

2.0étoiles sur 5 so I'm being a little picky, it's still ridiculous
I did not care for Vital Signs. It was a little too unbelievable when they were attacked by the great white. Read more
Publié le Janv. 31 2000 par Joseph Klimek

3.0étoiles sur 5 Great summer reading on the beach or the plane.
Great summer reading on the beach or the plane
Publié le Juil 8 1999

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