Brain - Medical Thriller by Robin Cook Paperback

About the Book

These "nerve-wracking hospital horrors" (Chicago Sun-Times) will definite ly heat up sales. Two doctors suspect something is very wrong at the enormous medical center where they work. And soon they will put their careers--and their lives--in deadly jeopardy, as they penetrate the eerie inner sanctums of a medical world gone mad. "Unnervingly plausible".--Los Angeles Times.

Book Synopsis

The bestselling "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times) delivers a terrifying case of an otherwise healthy woman who dies on the operating table, and the conspiracy surrounding her death that follows...

When a healthy young woman's routine checkup ends with her seizing in the doctor's office, Dr. Martin Philips becomes convinced that something is terribly wrong. Why would a 21-year-old woman in peak physical condition die on the operating table--and then have her brain secretly removed?

An inexplicable rash of female patients exhibiting bizarre psychotic and sexual behavior has Dr. Philips very, very concerned--and afraid. Something is wrong in the great medical research center where he and his lover Dr. Denise Sanger work, and they place their careers and very lives in jeopardy as they penetrate the eerie inner sanctums of a medical world gone mad with technological power and the lust for more.

Review Quotes

Praise for Robin Cook and Brain

"Absorbing... provocative."--The Houston Chronicle

"Unnervingly plausible, deeply frightening.... The medical milieu is rendered with exquisite accuracy."--Los Angeles Times

"A fast-paced, gripping thriller."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

About the Author

Robin Cook, M.D., is the author of more than thirty books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his wildly successful first novel, Coma. He divides his time among Florida, New Hampshire, and Boston. His most recent novels include Host, Cell, and Nano.