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Zusatztext Praise for Shock “One of the most memorable of Robin Cook’s medical thrillers.”—Associated Press “[An] infectious medical thriller…delightfully readable.”— Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Robin Cook, M.D., is the author of over forty books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his groundbreaking and wildly successful 1977 novel, Coma . His other bestsellers include Night Shift , Viral , Genesis , Pandemic , and Charlatans . Cook divides his time between Florida, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. Klappentext A New York Times bestselling spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok by master of medical suspense Robin Cook... Two graduate students decide to solve their financial problems by becoming egg donors at an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying aims of its research, immediately putting their lives-and their sanity-irrevocably at risk... Zusammenfassung NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “infectious medical thriller” ( Kirkus Reviews ) from the renowned author of Coma , two young women, curious about their donated eggs, uncover a plot more sinister than either of them could have imagined. . . . “Leave it to doctor-turned-novelist Robin Cook to scare us all to death.”— Los Angeles Times Graduate students Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner respond to a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: An exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic northwest of Boston is willing to pay top dollar to a few attractive, slim, athletic Ivy League egg donors. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying aims of its research, immediately putting their lives—and their sanity—irrevocably at risk. . . ....
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[An] infectious medical thriller . . . delightfully readable. Kirkus Reviews
One of the most memorable of Robin Cook s medical thrillers. The Associated Press
Leave it to doctor-turned-novelist Robin Cook to scare us all to death. Los Angeles Times
