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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Bookmarque | Jun 13, 2009 |   This was a great read. Robin Cook brings a great storyline to life that keeps you guessing what is really happening, and leaves you going whoa! Robin Cook delivers once again. (  )dragonfairy | Feb 14, 2009 | Barely believable characters in a cloning situation at a fertility clinic - story had some redeeming qualities. (  )jepeters333 | Dec 26, 2008 | Pairing: Inui x Kaidoh Rating: PG Pages: 26 Aoikaze_SP | Dec 31, 1969 |  0.828 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 042518286X, Paperback)Robin Cook, master of bestselling medical thrillers, answers the "What's the worst thing that could happen?" question in this plot-twisting novel in which villains with no sense of ethics or social responsibility get their greedy hands on the newest cloning technology. It starts when a couple of Harvard graduate students answer the Wingate Clinic's ad for egg donors. The women figure on financing a year in Venice and the down payment on a Boston condo with the extraordinary sum they're promised. But a year later, the heroines feel the emotional need to seek out the children they've made possible for infertile couples. So they disguise themselves and seek jobs at the clinic in order to access the identifying information. The clinic, as it turns out, has plenty of secrets to protect, so it's hard to believe that a pair of computer neophytes could bypass its security. But they do, and the author is an adept enough writer to finesse this detail.As in past books, Cook is much better at the technical details of medical research than he is at characterization, but he definitely knows how to plot a thriller. This one keeps you turning the pages until the final denouement, though the last chapter ends abruptly, leaving the reader to wonder whether he ran out of steam or is just setting up a sequel in which he'll recycle the villains in a new scheme with a new pair of victims. --Jane Adams (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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The drama, suspense and/or terror just didn’t pay off either. There was hardly any build up for it and when it was finally revealed that one of the doctors was cloning himself and implanting the embryos in various women and even in pigs, it just didn’t seem scary. The dialogue was pretty lame too. No one outside of a 1950s sit-com would talk like that. Yuk. (