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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780425216576
ISBN number: 0425216578
Label: Berkley
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Page Count: 580
Printing Date: August 07, 2007
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The inventor of the medical thriller shows us a healer's dark side: the terrifying story of a doctor who plunges into a web of corruption and lies. The inventor of the medical thriller shows us a healer's dark side: the terrifying story of a doctor who plunges into a web of corruption and lies.
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This Book hasn't been writen by Cook. Period.
Such a junk writing.
If your hero is fatchig a drink from the fridge , you don't have to describe a full page describing the contents of the fridge.
That's about most of the book. Long none importand descriptions, and discussions
I just throw the book at page 200 !!!
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Robin Cook has written Crisis in a manner that is both overwritten and pretentious. The ultimate malefactor had no plausible nor demonstrated motive.
The one really nice twist: the last page. Upon reflection, even that was a bit unsatisfying, because there was no demonstrated "how" - and this coming from someone who's a part of the "Lost" generation and has gotten relatively resigned to bits of opacity in media story plots.
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Robin Cook is the grand-daddy of the medical thriller, but in Crisis he veers into the arena of the legal thriller, and not with the best effect. This book has some problems, particularly in the plotting.
Quick facts of the case: Dr. Craig Bowman is being sued for medical malpractice after he made a house call to a "problem patient" who was apparently dying of a heart attack, rather than directing her husband to call an ambulance. On trial we have Dr. Bowman AND his style of practice, known as "concierge medicine," in which wealthy patients pay a large annual fee for personalized attention from their internist. Dr. Bowman's wife calls her brother for help with the trial; her brother is New York medical examiner Jack Singleton, known to readers from several of Cook's earlier books.
Singleton wants to exhume the body and perform an autopsy. He and the Bowman daughters are attacked and threatened to warn him off, presumably at the bidding of the attorney for the deceased's husband.
The book would benefit from decisive editing as it's much too long, with interminable courtroom dialogue and MUCH more Boston driving hassles than anyone needs. Another significant problem is that the characters (as usual with this author) often behave in ways that seem unreasonable. Dr. Singleton, for example, is pressing against a deadline: his own wedding to his colleague Dr. Laurie Montgomery. Will he make the wedding? Does he want to? The suspense of that situation is overdone and distracting.
But the biggest problem is the ending, which is totally unsupported by the rest of the book and which viciously orphans several plot elements. Who really tried to prevent the autopsy, and why? This major story line is dropped like a hot potato. Why was Dr. Bowman crazy enough to do what he apparently did, and why didn't his psychologist wife have a clue? We'll never know. And *** POSSIBLE SPOILER HERE ** how could it possibly happen that Jack looks directly into a man's eyes and isn't sure whether it's his brother-in-law or not? I want some of that hair dye!
I had the feeling this COULD have been a good book except for the inadequate editing and the "lucky dip" ending; there were many threads that showed promise though they were left dangling. I listened to it on CD and the reading by George Guidall was very effective, though the indexing was at too-long intervals. If I'd had paper in my hands I'd have flipped through the dragged-out bits -- and probably enjoyed it less overall. Being a "process reader" rather than just looking for the plot outcome, I found Crisis to be a three-star experience for me. If this lack of resolution ruins your own reading pleasure, then you may want to skip this one.
Linda Bulger, 2008
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Like so many others, I have been a fan since "Coma" was published. But, believe me, this is no "Coma," though at times I felt as if I were drifting into one reading it. Characters and situations, which start out with promise, quickly become unreal and boring cardboard constructions. Conversations among intimates sound computer-generated, lacking any verisimilitude. It doesn't take much time to see that every situation is being stretched and milked to the limit, with lots of tangential descriptions, asides, and inconsequential actions that add nothing to plot or mood.
Dr. Craig Bowman's frustration and depression at having his competence challenged are mentioned in detail so frequently that I wanted to scream. And what was this implied mob-connection via personal injury lawyer Tony Fasano? Did he arrange the terrorizing of the Bowmans? Does anybody really care? It was unnecessarily introduced then dropped flat.
Several times names are incorrectly applied, substituting Craig for Jack. Laurie comes off as a one-dimensional, unsympathetic nag. Boo hiss. Jack makes incredible statements, like days before his wedding he says he can't drive from Boston to NYC if he can't get a flight back home early in the morning. Say what? After making his way around the Boston area streets for days, he can certainly drive the four hours back to NYC via the interstate if necessary, even after the autopsy in the middle of the night. Furthermore, adding to incredulity, Jack doesn't seem to really recognize Craig later because Craig has dyed his hair dark. Now I really believe that.
The courtroom scenes should have been left to John Grisham. Talk about boring. At the end things are left hanging. Exactly why did Craig commit the murder (because Patience was a hypochondriac?) and exactly how did he introduce the poison? Since Cook spends so much time on the microbiology, it might have been nice to follow through and explain Craig's process as well as his thinking about it.
The book ends hurriedly with Jack solving the puzzle, racing home, barely making it to his wedding after a series of anti-climactic time-wasting difficulties. All wrapped up in a hastily tied, pretty pink ribbon.
In good conscience I can't recommend this book to anyone unless he or she is in need of a sedative.
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This is one of my favorite authors but not one of his best books. This is a Jack Stapleton novel. Recently, Cook's books have become arrogant and pompous -written as if you have to be a medical professional to understand them. Someone is spreading the MRSA bacteria at several hospitals. Jack and Laurie must find out whom. If you have a medical background or like books with a technical medical component, read it. If not, skip this one. I am a mircobiologust and even I got lost in th emumbo jumbo of this book sometimes!
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