Book description
With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete
remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to
work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner. Worried that she still has
what it takes, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous
puzzler, involving organized crime and two start-up bio-tech companies
caught in a zero-sum game.
Satoshi Machita, a former Kyoto University researcher, is set to own a
valuable patent controlling pluripotent stem cells destined to spark a
trillion-dollar industry of regenerative medicine. When he dies on a
crowded New York subway platform, Laurie must decide whether his death
was natural - or something fiendish.
Behind the scenes, there are people who would like to see Laurie as far
away from the investigation as possible. Despite threats against her,
Laurie presses on, until they extend to the person she loves most in the
world: her son, JJ. Suddenly Laurie must face solving the crime - and
saving her son's life. Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited
with introducing the word 'medical' to the thriller genre, and over
twenty years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma
, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has
successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce over
twenty-seven international bestsellers, including Outbreak
(1987), Terminal
(1993), Contagion
(1996), Chromosome 6
(1997), Foreign Body
(2008) and most recently Intervention
(2010).
