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Brain by Robin Cook
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Brain

by Robin Cook

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Brain is definitely the best Robin Cook novel I have read so far. The characters are very well-developed, the thrills are realistic and the end is entirely unexpected. Though the porn trade is mentioned in the blurb, this is not a big part of the story. This novel is so frightening, you will never look at hospitals in the same way again! ( )
fairy-whispers | Oct 13, 2008 |  
A radiologist stumbles upon a plot involving young women treated at a clinic at his hospital. Where are the women vanishing to, what do their symptoms mean, and what is the involvement of the leading neurosurgeon at the hospital? Reasonably entertaining although the later chapters seem rushed and the ending rather forced. ( )
pauliharman | Jan 22, 2008 |  
When a doctor uncovers unethical research, he does what he must to save himself and his wife. ( )
DonnaJWolfe | Sep 2, 2007 |  
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Both of them suspected that something was wrong, terribly wrong, in the great medical research center where they worked. Both of them wondered why a beautiful young woman had died on the operating table and had her brain secretely removed. Both of them found it impossible to explain the rash of female patients exhibiting bizarre mental breakdowns and shocking sexual behavior. Both of them were placing their careers and very lives in deadly jeopardy as they penetrated the eerie inner sanctums of a medical world gone mad with technological power and the lust for more....

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0451157974, Paperback)

Two doctors place their lives in jeopardy to find out why a young woman died on the operating table-and had her brain secretly removed.

"Absorbing...provocative." (Houston Chronicle)

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:56 -0400)

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