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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'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).
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What could the Shroud of Turin, a conservative Southern senator, and an entrepreneurial researcher have in common? Here politics, religion and bioscience collide in the latest novel from the master of the medical thriller. Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential demagogue whose support of traditional American values includes a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies. When he’s called on to chair a sub-committee introducing legislation to ban new cloning technology, the senator views it as a keystone to his political future. As a consequence, Dr Daniel Lowell – inventor of a technique that will take stem-cell research up to the next level – sees a barrier being raised before his biotech start-up. These seemingly opposite personalities may clash during the Senate hearings, yet the two men share a common failing. Butler’s hunger for political power far outstrips his genuine concern for the unborn; while Lowell’s pursuit of massive personal wealth and celebrity overrides any real considerations for his patients’ well-being. Further complicating their confrontation is the confidential news that Senator Butler has developed Parkinson’s disease – which leads the senator and the researcher into a Faustian pact. But in attempting to utilise Lowell’s new technology prematurely, the therapy leaves the senator with the horrifying effects of temporal lobe epilepsy – causing seizures of the bizarrest order. Taken straight out of tomorrow’s headlines, Seizure is a cautionary tale for this age when new biotechnological discoveries are pulling us ever further into a promising yet frightening new world.
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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
By "jc11"
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
By A Customer
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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By A. Chell
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Format:Paperback
The title of this book gives away the ending as surely as calling a book about the Titanic "It Sinks". The plot and characters come a distant second to Cook showing off how much he knows about genetic engineering, especially the technobabble. Like a previous reviewer, I finished the book out of sheer bloodymindedness and wish now that I hadn't bothered.
My high school English teacher once annotated one of my poor attempts at creative writing with three words that I feel sum up this book perfectly: weak, clumsy, avoid.
My high school English teacher once annotated one of my poor attempts at creative writing with three words that I feel sum up this book perfectly: weak, clumsy, avoid.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Rob Shipton
Format:Paperback
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. I endorse all of the points raised by other reviewers. What was Robin Cook thinking of when he conceived this vague, rambling and unbelievable tail? Try 'Mount Dragon' by Preston Child or Michael Crichton's 'Next'. Sorry Robin.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By stitch
Format:Paperback
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. almost as if the author had reached his quota and thought it time to go home now.
very disappointing considering i had only soldiered through the book to find out what the whole seizure thing was all about. the characters are plain and one dimensional. where there is the possibility of depth to them, the author doesnt explore that, but instead insists on them having incredibly obvious and boring conversations that are not necessary. he leaves lots and lots of unanswered questions. the mob angle. the shroud of turin angle, the seizure itself. the people at the wingate.
basically, i wont be getting back those hours of my life i wasted reading this book.
very disappointing considering i had only soldiered through the book to find out what the whole seizure thing was all about. the characters are plain and one dimensional. where there is the possibility of depth to them, the author doesnt explore that, but instead insists on them having incredibly obvious and boring conversations that are not necessary. he leaves lots and lots of unanswered questions. the mob angle. the shroud of turin angle, the seizure itself. the people at the wingate.
basically, i wont be getting back those hours of my life i wasted reading this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By RozziD
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Format:Hardcover
I'd been waiting for this book to be realeased for a while and couldn't wait to get reading, but I found this story to be really disappointing and not at all what I'm used to from Robin Cook. The story was weak and the ending was dreadful in my opinion. I was still trying to figure out where the title came from when I was three quarters through the book. Once the 'main point of the story' started, it could have been great but it was left much too late. Here's hoping the next novel is back to his usual calibre.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
very disappointed in this book, the ending was terrible with many loose ends left and questions unanswered. his previous book centred on the Wingate Clinic was not brilliant, and neither is this one. I used to look forward to Robin's books and order them before they were published, but not now, is age getting the better of him I wonder?
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