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Shock by Robin Cook

Shock

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Robin Cook

Penguin Publishing Group · Ebook · September 3, 2002

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “infectious medical thriller” (Kirkus Reviews) from the renowned author of Coma, two young women, curious about their donated eggs, uncover a plot more sinister than either of them could have imagined. . . . “Leave it to doctor-turned-novelist Robin Cook to scare us all to death.”—Los Angeles Times Graduate students Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner respond to a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: An exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic northwest of Boston is willing to pay top dollar to a few attractive, slim, athletic Ivy League egg donors.

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Who it’s for
A medical thriller that turns questions about egg donation into a tense, unsettling investigation.
Genres
Medical Thrillers, Suspense, Medical Fiction
Published
Penguin Publishing Group, September 3, 2002

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “infectious medical thriller” (Kirkus Reviews) from the renowned author of Coma, two young women, curious about their donated eggs, uncover a plot more sinister than either of them could have imagined. . . .

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“Leave it to doctor-turned-novelist Robin Cook to scare us all to death.”—Los Angeles Times Graduate students Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner respond to a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: An exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic northwest of Boston is willing to pay top dollar to a few attractive, slim, athletic Ivy League egg donors. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying aims of its research, immediately putting their lives—and their sanity—irrevocably at risk. . . .

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A medical thriller that turns questions about egg donation into a tense, unsettling investigation.

Come here for

  • Medical suspense with a chilling research angle
  • Two curious investigators taking serious risks

Expect

  • A clinic hiding sinister research
  • Escalating danger to life and sanity

Where it sits

Medical Thrillers100%
Suspense36%
Medical Fiction30%

Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.

Publisher categories

  • Private Eye Fiction
  • Psychological Fiction
  • Medical Thrillers
Authors
Robin Cook
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Published
September 3, 2002
Format
Ebook
Reading lane
Private Eye Fiction