Brain

by Robin Cook

Overview

The bestselling “master of the medical thriller” (The New York Times) delivers a terrifying case of an otherwise healthy woman who dies on the operating table, and the conspiracy surrounding her death that follows...

When a healthy young woman’s routine checkup ends with her seizing in the doctor’s office, Dr. Martin Philips becomes convinced that something is terribly wrong. Why would a 21-year-old woman in peak physical condition die on the operating table—and then have her brain secretly removed?

An inexplicable rash of female patients exhibiting bizarre psychotic and sexual behavior has Dr. Philips very, very concerned—and afraid. Something is wrong in the great medical research center where he and his lover Dr. Denise Sanger work, and they place their careers and very lives in jeopardy as they penetrate the eerie inner sanctums of a medical world gone mad with technological power and the lust for more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451157973
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/04/1982
Series:	A Medical Thriller
Edition description:	Reissue
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	4.13(w) x 6.72(h) x 0.83(d)
Lexile:	900L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

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.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Absorbing...provocative."—The Houston Chronicle

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Robin Cook and Brain:

“Absorbing... provocative.”—The Houston Chronicle

“Unnervingly plausible, deeply frightening.... The medical milieu is rendered with exquisite accuracy.”—Los Angeles Times

“A fast-paced, gripping thriller.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer

From the Publisher

What the devil is going on here?....What's going on here is the very cleverly plotted new medical thriller by Robin Cook....Unfortunately, toward the end, when Dr. Cook takes the action of his thriller outside of the hospital, he loses control of the story completely. On top of that, the solution to what's going on in ''Brain'' turns out to be a lesson on the threat of certain medical researchers with insufficient respect for humanity. And insult added to injury: we have to endure a postscript lecture arguing that the threat is real. Still, none of this is so bad that it wipes out the fun of the first two-thirds of the story. Maybe the thing to do with ''Brain'' is to read the first 200 pages, then make up your own ending. -- New York Times

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Absorbing...provocative.

Absorbing...provocative.

Houston Chronicle