Fever

by Robin Cook

Overview

Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and a man if he tries to fight it...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781101190371
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/01/2000
Series:	A Medical Thriller
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	352
Sales rank:	100,926
File size:	379 KB
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

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

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

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