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Product Summary
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 0399155023
ISBN-13: 9780399155024
Buy.com Sku: 205821129
Publish Date: 8/5/2008
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(in Inches) 9.5H x 6.25L x 1.75T
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| A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends an idealistic UCLA medical student on a desperate search for answers, in this chilling tale from the master of the medical thriller. Jennifer Hernandez is a fourth-year medical student at UCLA, just completing an elective in general surgery, whose world is shattered during a break in an otherwise ordinary day. While relaxing in the surgical lounge of L.A.'s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, she half-listens to a piece on medical tourism, where first-world citizens travel to third-world countries for surgery. But when she hears her beloved grandmother's name mentioned, her own heart nearly stops: the CNN reporter says Maria Suarez-Hernandez had died, a day after undergoing a hip replacement in New Delhi's Queen Victoria Hospital. Maria had raised Jennifer and her brothers from infancy, and their bond was unshakable. Still, the news that Maria had traveled to India was a shock to Jennifer, until she realized that it was the only viable option for the hardworking yet uninsured woman. Devastated, and desperate for answers, Jennifer takes emergency leave from school and heads to India, where relations with local officials go from sympathetic to sour as she presses for more information. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr. Laurie Montgomery, who has her own deep connection to Maria. Laurie, along with her husband, Dr. Jack Stapleton, rushes to the younger woman's side, discovering a sophisticated medical facility with little margin for error. As the death count grows, so do the questions, leadingLaurie and Jennifer to unveil a sinister, multilayered conspiracy of global proportions. |
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Shocked by her beloved grandmother's untimely death a day after she travels to New Delhi to have affordable hip-replacement surgery, fourth-year UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez heads to India for answers and uncovers a series of unexplained deaths, a finding that forces her to turn for assistance to her medical examiner mentor, Dr. Montgomery. 350,000 first printing. |
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In Robin Cook's bestselling thriller, a UCLA medical student is shocked to learn that her grandmother has passed away after trying to find affordable medical treatment in New Delhi. Jennifer is in her fourth year at school, but she makes a special request to travel to India to try and find out what happened to her beloved grandmother, Maria. When the local Indian authorities try to shut her out, she begins to probe further, and uncovers other similar, unexplained fatalities. She turns to Dr. Laurie Montgomery, a medical examiner, for help, and both are soon in the midst of a complex, terrifying plot that reaches further than they ever could have imagined.
In Robin Cook's bestselling thriller, a UCLA medical student is shocked to learn that her grandmother has passed away after trying to find affordable medical treatment in New Delhi. Jennifer is in her fourth year at school, but she makes a special request to travel to India to try and find out what happened to her beloved grandmother, Maria. When the local Indian authorities try to shut her out, she begins to probe further, and uncovers other similar, unexplained fatalities. She turns to Dr. Laurie Montgomery, a medical examiner, for help, and both are soon in the midst of a complex, terrifying plot that reaches further than they ever could have imagined.
Author Bio
Robin Cook
A best-selling author of medical thrillers, Robin Cook graduated from both the Columbia University Medical School and Harvard University, and has worked in prestigious hospitals including the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. His interests range from real estate to basketball, skiing and tennis. Many of his popular novels have been adapted into successful television movies, and "Coma" was turned into a successful motion picture. He married his wife, actress Barbara Ellen Mougin, on July 18, 1979.
"The novel is a credit to the medical genre, which Cook is generally thought to have created and made popular."
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