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Work InformationMortal Fear by Robin Cook (1988)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Dr. Jason Howard works for GHP and when his seemingly healthy patients begin to die of massive strokes and aneurysms he starts to lose his confidence and wonders what he's doing wrong in his practice. But when he starts to talk to colleagues and they confide in him that they are having the same problems with their own patients Jason begins to wonder if there isn't something on an epidemic level going on. When an eccentric colleague confides in him that he's made a major breakthrough in his research but dies before he can divulge what exactly, Jason is left to put the puzzle pieces together and find out what exactly is killing everyone. Can he find out before it's too late? Perfectly written and executed story. Yet another great one by Robin Cook. He is definitely the undisputed Master of the Medical Thriller! I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I will definitely be recommending it. Mortal Fear very much reminded me of Fatal Cure, they're roughly the same synopsis - corporate health care organisation decides to cut costs by killing expensive patients. The difference between the two however is the stories that get you there, here it's a clinic with a single doctor trying to unravel the mystery of a professor suddenly dying on a mystery illness along with scores of previously healthy people dying weeks later. In Fatal Cure it's at a hospital with loads of mystery deaths after elective surgeries and mild admissions. Is it worth reading if you've already read Fatal Cure? yes if you enjoy his books and the medical genre, otherwise probably not. no reviews | add a review
Is contained inIs abridged inReader's Digest Auswahlbücher 167 - Todesangst. Im Herzen des Tals. Stadt der Freude. Späte Liebe - spätes Glück by Reader's Digest Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher, Bestseller-Sonderband - Todesangst / Der Bär / Das späte Geständnis by Reader's Digest Distinctions
A harrowing medical nightmare on the cutting edge of genetic research, Mortal Fear goes into the controversial future of modern medicine. At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist stumbles upon a miraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough. Soon, healthy, middle-aged patients are dying of old age. And the ultimate experiment in terror begins... No library descriptions found. |
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I really enjoyed the Carol character, and how she puzzled Jason. I got a good laugh at his assumptions about her. Often the first thing people ask you is what you do for a living so they can put you in a category and decide if they should feel superior or not. Perhaps Cook was sending a little message here about judging people quickly.
Action packed as usual, with things to ponder. I love having a bit of education tucked into a lot of fun. ( )