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    Shock

    Part of A Medical Thriller

    Author Robin Cook
    Read by Kate Burton
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    On sale Jan 01, 1999 | 5 Hours and 45 Minutes | 9780786558155
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    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. . . . 

    Posited on up-to-the-minute science, Shock is a spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok by the bestselling master of medical suspense.

    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 most recent bestsellers include Night Shift, Viral, Genesis, Pandemic, and Charlatans. Cook divides his time between Florida, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. View titles by Robin Cook
    “[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

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    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. . . . 

    Posited on up-to-the-minute science, Shock is a spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok by the bestselling master of medical suspense.

    Author

    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 most recent bestsellers include Night Shift, Viral, Genesis, Pandemic, and Charlatans. Cook divides his time between Florida, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. View titles by Robin Cook

    Praise

    “[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

    Additional formats

    • Shock
      Shock
      Robin Cook
      9780425182864
      $7.99 US
      Mass Market Paperback
      G.P. Putnam's Sons
      Sep 03, 2002
    • Shock
      Shock
      Robin Cook
      9781101204009
      Ebook
      G.P. Putnam's Sons
      Aug 27, 2001
    • Shock
      Shock
      Robin Cook
      9780425182864
      $7.99 US
      Mass Market Paperback
      G.P. Putnam's Sons
      Sep 03, 2002
    • Shock
      Shock
      Robin Cook
      9781101204009
      Ebook
      G.P. Putnam's Sons
      Aug 27, 2001

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