Night Shift

Informationen zum Autor Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word ‘medical’ to the thriller genre, and decades after the publication of his 1977 breakthrough novel, Coma , he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce over thirty international bestsellers, including Outbreak , Terminal , Contagion , Chromosome 6 , Foreign Body , Intervention and Cure . Klappentext In Night Shift , an exhilarating medical mystery-thriller by Robin Cook, a doctor's murder will lure Jack and Laurie into the dark underbelly of their New York hospital. Juggling intense work with family pressures, Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery are married doctors with hectic schedules. The last thing they need on their plates is a murder. When Laurie's long-time friend Dr Sue Passero dies mysteriously in a hospital car park, an autopsy is required. It falls squarely under Laurie's remit as newly-appointed chief medical examiner but, when Laurie asks Jack to take special care with the examination, he can hardly refuse. As he looks more closely into the case, Jack senses foul play around Sue's sudden death. He sets out to investigate on-site at Manhattan Memorial Hospital, even if it means defying the rules. What starts as an inquiry soon becomes a deadly game of cat-and-mouse - between Jack Stapleton and a deranged killer, ready to strike again . . . Zusammenfassung A doctor is found dead in the hospital car park. Uncovering the truth will take Jack and Laurie to the darkest reaches of New York medicine. This is a medical thriller from the master of the genre, Robin Cook.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Robin Cook
• Edition: Pan Books
• Langues: Anglais
• Recommandation d'âge: à partir de 18 ans
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 31.08.2023
• EAN: 9781529098792
• ISBN: 978-1-5290-9879-2
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Thème: Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); New York, New York City, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Technothriller, FICTION / Medical, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, c 2010 to c 2019