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- Publisher: Penguin Highbridge (Aud) (Jan 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0786558156
- ISBN-13: 978-0786558155
- Average Customer Review: 2.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
Shock
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Cutting-edge technology and personal greed converge in this spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok.
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Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for donors. Deborah and Joanna figure they can perform a good deed in helping infertle couples, while earning some money for themselves. Although rumours surface of a fellow donor's unexplained disappearance, they remain undeterred.The procedures seem to go smoothly, but second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women discover more. Stymied by the clinic's veil of secrecy, Deborah and Joanna obtain employment there to continue their probe. Working under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying true aims of Dr Windgate's research, immediately putting their lives - and their sanity - irrevocably at risk.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I love mysteries and just finished what should have been an exciting book by an author I had come to enjoy.
But when a book builds you up and gets you attached to the main characters, then slams the door shut with a non-ending, it annoys me no end. I do not like to be annoyed by a book that was for entertainment.
Robin Cook's medical mysteries usually are good, but his book "Shock" was an annoying dissappointment when he leads you through a high suspense, only to have the main characters get captured by the baddies, then suddenly have the baddies talk about escaping off-shore and leave you hanging about the situation with the characters you have been identifying with. That is annoying to the max.
Save your money on Robin Cook.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Whilst this is up to Robin Cook's normal standards throughout, I must say that I felt a little cheated at the end. I turned over the page to find that I had run out of printed pages! It's almost like it's been written for a film to be produced, but left open to provide space for a sequel. Granted you know what's happened, and you are fairly certain what will happen, but you don't actually know. Normally Robin's books are conclusive, but not this time. Having said that, it didn't detract from the overall enjoyment of reading yet another Cook book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is the first review I have ever written and I am very sorry to write this, having wanted to read one of Robin Cook's Medical Thrillers for a very long time, but this is one of the worst books I have ever read. The language used makes it an incredibly difficult read. Cook is obviously an intelligent man and has an excellent use of the English Written Word. However, to me at least, when reading a novel you want something that is as easy to read as possible and I find it incredibly annoying to read a novel that uses a very, very extended form of the English Language/Written Word. Cook seems to enjoy using very long, complicated words when more shorter and simpler words could just as easily be used. I also enjoy using an extended form of the English written word, being a Medical Negligence Lawyer, but I read novels to relax - enough said I hope...
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Disappointing end
Not a bad read, but the ending was such a disappointment - a real cop-out by the author. It was almost as if the author suddenly run out of ideas.
Published on 28 Feb 2009 by Ian Menzies
Dreadful
I have read and enjoyed Robin Cook's novels in the past, but this book is terrible.
The idea for the story is an excellent one but the execution could not be worse - the... Read more
The idea for the story is an excellent one but the execution could not be worse - the... Read more
Published on 18 Oct 2008 by Baradun
Technology at a price
Robin Cook's medical thrillers never fail to please and this is no exception. This novel focuses on the problems of obtaining human samples for medical research, and Cook creats a... Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2003 by Marion
Read one of his other books, not this one.
I don't usually write reviews, but this was so disappointingly fluffy and silly that I had to warn people. The two main characters are generic and dippy. Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2002
What a Shocker!!!
I thought this book was truly awful! Friends had recommended the author to me, and this was my first experience of his writing. Read more
Published on 28 Aug 2002
Reader Retarded by Rotten Writing!
Cook's skill in spinning a yarn desert him in this implausibly tedious account of a fertility clinic cum house of horror. Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2002 by Patrick Condon
A good read
Typical Robin Cook, another excellent book with plenty of action and excitement and a cutting edge storyline. Twists and turns all the way mean you can't put it down.
Published on 28 Feb 2002 by "themanwiththestick"
Cutting edge medical thriller
Robin Cook again writes a medical thriller right at the cutting edge of science and medicine. In this book 2 young postgraduate students investigate an infertility clinic in... Read more
Published on 23 Dec 2001 by S. bhatt
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