- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group; First Edition edition (July 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0399148760
- ISBN-13: 978-0399148767
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.7 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 591,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Like John Grisham and Patricia Cornwell, the author, a practising doctor from Florida, mines his professional life for clever plots and gruesomely convincing details' (DAILY MAIL).
Public antagonists become conspirators as a medical entrepreneur performs a controversial operation on a duplicitous politician. In an afterword, Cook (Shock, 2001, etc.) warns us that political prohibitions against embryonic stem-cell research are misinformed and will only make things worse. Here, they're bad enough for Dr. David Lowell, a brilliant, egotistical, and bit greedy researcher who quits Harvard to found a struggling for-profit company that will, he hopes, make millions when it develops a complicated technique involving embryonic cloning that has cured Parkinson's in mice. On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, antiabortion Senator Ashley Butler heads a subcommittee considering a bill that will ban the procedure. Called to testify before the committee, Dr. Lowell fails to persuade the senator that his technique isn't killing babies, and Lowell is later contacted by the senator's aide, Carol Manning, for a secret meeting. It turns out the senator has Parkinson's and is willing to stall the bill in his committee, as well as pay hundreds of thousands in secret PAC money to Lowell and his sexy, competent lover and business partner, Dr. Stephanie D'Agostino, to perform the operation on him secretly, with two conditions: that this be done in the Bahamas at the new Wingate Clinic, and that the cloning involve DNA taken from blood residues on the Shroud of Turin. The senator offers to sponsor a bill limiting the amount of damages in lawsuits against charities-just as a New York cardinal wants in wake of the church's sex scandals. Calls are made to the Vatican, and, while getting the sample in Turin, the doctors have their first of many brushes with danger, involving priests, Mafiosi, and other types tainted by incompetence, greed, and irrational fears. Despite all, the doctors actually pull off the operation, though Murphy's Law takes over in ways no one can expect. Typical Cook: lifeless dialogue, weak prose, and hokey plot, but a sound message: ambitious doctors and scheming politicians only increase the suffering that, deep down, both want to cure. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Public antagonists become conspirators as a medical entrepreneur performs a controversial operation on a duplicitous politician. In an afterword, Cook (Shock, 2001, etc.) warns us that political prohibitions against embryonic stem-cell research are misinformed and will only make things worse. Here, they're bad enough for Dr. David Lowell, a brilliant, egotistical, and bit greedy researcher who quits Harvard to found a struggling for-profit company that will, he hopes, make millions when it develops a complicated technique involving embryonic cloning that has cured Parkinson's in mice. On Capitol Hill, meanwhile, antiabortion Senator Ashley Butler heads a subcommittee considering a bill that will ban the procedure. Called to testify before the committee, Dr. Lowell fails to persuade the senator that his technique isn't killing babies, and Lowell is later contacted by the senator's aide, Carol Manning, for a secret meeting. It turns out the senator has Parkinson's and is willing to stall the bill in his committee, as well as pay hundreds of thousands in secret PAC money to Lowell and his sexy, competent lover and business partner, Dr. Stephanie D'Agostino, to perform the operation on him secretly, with two conditions: that this be done in the Bahamas at the new Wingate Clinic, and that the cloning involve DNA taken from blood residues on the Shroud of Turin. The senator offers to sponsor a bill limiting the amount of damages in lawsuits against charities-just as a New York cardinal wants in wake of the church's sex scandals. Calls are made to the Vatican, and, while getting the sample in Turin, the doctors have their first of many brushes with danger, involving priests, Mafiosi, and other types tainted by incompetence, greed, and irrational fears. Despite all, the doctors actually pull off the operation, though Murphy's Law takes over in ways no one can expect. Typical Cook: lifeless dialogue, weak prose, and hokey plot, but a sound message: ambitious doctors and scheming politicians only increase the suffering that, deep down, both want to cure. (Kirkus Reviews) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The latest harrowing novel from the best-selling master of the medical chiller A seizure has to be one of the most frightening conditions known to the medical profession, and ever since publication of COMA (basis of an outstanding film) Dr Cook has been scaring us with his visionary insight into the most alarming possibilities of his own profession. Long recognised as the master of medical thrillers, Robin Cook once again combines a fascinating scenario with cutting-edge suspense and the bold strokes of everyday reality.
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It seemed to Daniel Lowell that the taxi had senselessly pulled to a stop mid-block in the center of M Street in Georgetown, Washington D.C., a busy four-lane thoroughfare. Read the first page
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I was terribly disappointed with Cook's last book - Shock, so I was expecting better things from this one and initially I was very pleased. The plot developed and I thought it was going along nicely. I was a bit suprised that it was again centred on the infamous Wingate Clinic from Shock, but hey..if the story was OK..who cared?
I won't expand on too much of the plot...you can read the blurb on the jacket, but the ending is terrible. It's almost as though Cook got fed up and just ended it!! There were SO many unanswered questions, questions that he himself had gone out of his way to build in to the story, the brother and the New York mob, the authorities reaction to the whole procedure, the implications for the Wingate Clinic... the list goes on.
Mr Cook, if you're not going to complete your novels, then don't publish them!
I have all of Cook's books and they seem to have gone downhill since the ludicrous Abduction.
My advice, if you hanker after the Cook of old...pick up some of the novels of Michael Palmer to see what you have been missing!!
I won't expand on too much of the plot...you can read the blurb on the jacket, but the ending is terrible. It's almost as though Cook got fed up and just ended it!! There were SO many unanswered questions, questions that he himself had gone out of his way to build in to the story, the brother and the New York mob, the authorities reaction to the whole procedure, the implications for the Wingate Clinic... the list goes on.
Mr Cook, if you're not going to complete your novels, then don't publish them!
I have all of Cook's books and they seem to have gone downhill since the ludicrous Abduction.
My advice, if you hanker after the Cook of old...pick up some of the novels of Michael Palmer to see what you have been missing!!
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The story doesn't grab you the way his earlier novels did. It's superficial and doesn't have the depth of detail which we came to expect from Mr Cook.
For a book entitled " Seizure " it doesn't even cover this until the last couple of chapters. The sloppy medical procedure on not having the right equipment to minimise the risk of a seizure following a medical procedure to the brain was not believable ! Although I am not a medical person I don't think the book covered the subject of epileptic seizures in a very realistic or constructive fashion. It would be more likely to frighten you into having a seizure !
The majority of the book was more about the protagonists gread and ego's.
I wouldn't recommend this book and am seriously considering not buying any more.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I agree completely with John Corbett who has also left a review on this book. What a disappointment! In addition to what Mr Corbett says, there is soooooo much medical jargon that I found myself just glossing over pages. I used to love Robin Cook and he is one author who I always look forward to publishing a new book however next time he has a new book out I shall wait till I can buy it 2nd hand. Come on Robin, don't let us down again.
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Singularly boring!
Yes, I must agree with the other negative reviewers of this book. Its difficult to develop any empathy with any of the characters; quite honestly, you hardly care what does happen... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Luke Bluewolf
Seizure? I thought I was having one!
With random characters, a slow and painfully drawn out beginning (which lasts for over three-quarters of the book), I have seldom read so much tosh. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Rob Shipton
How is this man a successful author?
The title of this book gives away the ending as surely as calling a book about the Titanic "It Sinks". Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2008 by A. Chell
Really dreadful
The premise of this book, while a tad far-fetched, seemed promising. But it started to fall apart within the first three chapters and by then I was just reading it out of sheer... Read more
Published on 13 Oct 2008 by Telboy
very boring would be a kind description
the blurb at the back of the book basically tells the entire story, other than the last 30 or 40 pages. where teh story ends far to abruptly. Read more
Published on 25 Oct 2007 by stitch
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Published on 29 Nov 2003 by S. Noonan
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