Fever

by Robin Cook

Overview

A renowned doctor’s quest to find the source of—and a cure for—his daughter’s sudden illness leads him into the heart of a lethal mystery in this “brilliant” (Associated Press) novel from the #1 bestselling “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times).

“A passionate, riveting, chilling drama.”—Cosmopolitan

Dr. Charles Martel, a brilliant cancer researcher, was forced to stand helplessly by as his first wife died slowly, agonizingly of cancer. Now he and his second wife, Cathryn, receive the shattering news that his eleven-year-old daughter, Michelle, is being attacked by the same disease.
 
This time Charles is going to do something. Even if the cause is a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her but will destroy him as a man and doctor if he tries to fight it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780425174203
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Series:	A Medical Thriller
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	436,794
Product dimensions:	6.76(w) x 4.30(h) x 0.95(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Robin Cook, M.D., is the author of over forty books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his groundbreaking and wildly successful 1977 novel, Coma. His other bestsellers include Night Shift, Viral, Genesis, Pandemic, and Charlatans. Cook divides his time between Florida, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

A passionate, riveting, chilling drama.”—Cosmopolitan

“Seductive storytelling skill . . . we turn the pages faster and faster.”—The New York Times

“The chilling dark side of medical care . . . something of a scientific swashbuckler that reads fast and well . . . eminently enjoyable.”—The Clarion-Ledger

“Brilliant . . . Robin Cook reveals himself as a rare talent.”—Associated Press

“Chilling plausibility and suspense . . . fascinating.”—John Barkham Reviews

From the Publisher

What Dr. Cook is so good at is exploiting the nervousness that many of us feel when faced with needles and men in white coats and brushed-aluminum medical machinery....What's more, Dr. Cook effectively milks our latent paranoia concerning the selfishness of drug companies and the civic irresponsibility of big business. In fact, the story's prejudice here is so effortlessly evoked, it makes you wonder whether a benevolent picture of big business is even possible in fiction any more....I seemed to recall an earlier novel by Dr. Cook -was it ''Coma,'' ''Sphinx,'' or ''Brain,'' or all three of them? -where things don't turn out very well. (In praising Dr. Cook, I never said his fiction isn't forgettable.) But in any case, by the time ''Fever'' began to deteriorate into absolute absurdity, I was having far too good a time to be willing to notice. -- New York Times

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt