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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780425131763
ISBN number: 0425131769
Label: Berkley
Manufacturer: Berkley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 352
Printing Date: February 01, 1992
Publishing house: Berkley
Release Date: May 08, 2001
Sale Popularity Level: 422506
Studio: Berkley
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Here is Robin Cook's most controversial medical thriller-the shocking story of experimental fertilization, the passion to create life, and the power to destroy it.
Just what the doctor ordered. (New York Daily News)
Vintage Cook...Nonstop action. (Kirkus Reviews)
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Robin Cook sticks with his strong suit-the lone individual doctor going after evil corporate medicine. While the plot is not one of the more believable--his protagonists do some pretty illogical things--it makes for some harrowing and enjoyable reading. Marissa Blumenthal makes a return from a previous book, but this time she is not only the white knight, she is also the victim. Really engaging book, just calls for a suspension of disbelief.
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I picked up Vital Signs at a used book store and enjoyed this early 1992 Robin Cook medical suspense thriller. Plenty of adventure takes the protagonist from Boston to places around the world. Good reading that plays out like a cool movie.
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I would have to say that this is one of the most disappointing books I have read in a long time. I know no one will probably read this review but I just have to get this off my chest.
When you read the back of a Robin Cook book, it sounds so promising. I enjoy medical dramas so I am always drawn to them but I have to say his earlier work is just terrible.
The main character is extremely irritating and annoying. I felt no sympathy towards her at all. Come to think of it, I didn't like anyone in this book! The lack of emotion shown when people died was totally unrealistic and totally insensitive.
Also I am from Brisbane, Australia where some of the book is set. I found myself getting more and more annoyed with the 'tourist book' writing.
This book was just too predictable and badly written. I have read a few of Robin's newer books and they do get better. But unfortunately I have just read too many bad ones so I am giving up!
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Robin Cook is at his best when his medical thrillers stay focused and are more suspenseful. Now Cook is trying to turn his medical thrillers into convoluted espionage thrillers, taking his characters all over the world. Here we go to Australia, Hong Kong and China. Drawn out, unbelievable situations and meandering dialogue draw this book down. I liked the character of Tristan Williams, but both Marissa and Wendy get a little too much, and I can't blame husband Robert for his disdain with Marissa's antics. Of all the Cook books (ha, no pun intended) I've read, this is his least effective.
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This book was okay as a vacation cabin read, but it is not one of Robin Cook's best. I found the plot pretty much predictable, in that the clinic was obviously trying to drum up business by creating a market, and then stringing the customer along to milk them for more cash. It only takes a couple hundred pages before the heroine of the story even gets close to that idea. She also falls for some of the lies quite easily, although she was suspicious about a coverup and evil intentions, she doesn't grok the obvious motive and means until the last few pages. The entertaining part is the traipsing through the clinic, breaking into the computer, and then off to Australia while chased by two bumbling hit-men, and then the heroine and her alter-ego trying to make contact with the triads (the number of watches they went through), before finally figuring out what the Chinese doctors do best. A good rainy day read, but not much of a mystery.
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