Vital Signs - Hardcover

Cook, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399137955 ISBN 13: 9780399137952

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 1991

Synopsis

Jacket has very slight shelf and edge wear. Book has no marks and intact. Ships very quickly and packaged carefully!

About this title

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.

From Publishers Weekly:

Cook's popular medical thrillers are designed, in part, to keep the public aware of both the technological possibilities of modern medicine and the ensuing ethical problems. His topic this time is reproductive science and the often murky baby-making business. Epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal, seen before in Outbreak , now has a successful pediatrics practice near Boston and an affluent health-care-entrepreneur husband. But her inability to become pregnant threatens both her marriage and her career. After unsuccessful visits to a local fertility clinic, she discovers a suprising and suspicious link between her medical records and those of an inordinate number of the clinic's clients. Traveling to Australia to learn more about a worldwide in vitro fertilization organization, Marissa and her friend Wendy are trailed, and a tragedy occurs. Marissa, now accompanied by the physician whose work she had come to Australia to investigate, goes to Hong Kong and eventually China--fleeing murderous assailants every step of the way--before a billion-dollar international scam is revealed. As always, Cook enlivens predictable action and shallow characterization with medical expertise and timely subject matter.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0399137955
• ISBN 13: 9780399137952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 321