Shock, Robin Cook
Shock, Robin Cook
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Shock

Author: Robin Cook

Series: A Medical Thriller

Narrator: Kate Burton

Unabridged: 5 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 01/01/1999


Synopsis

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.

About The Author

Robin Cook, MD, is the author of more than 30 books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his groundbreaking and wildly successful 1977 novel, Coma. He divides his time among Florida, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

This is a medical thriller novel. In this one two female college students decide to donate eggs to a medical facility for a big windfall. There is more to this medical facility than meets the eye. I couldn't understand while reading this why all the negative reviews. I was really enjoying it and I wa......more

Goodreads review by Bi

It's my opinion that the book was published incomplete. There were a number of inconsistencies and loose ends. #SPOILER# 1) Why would the Wingate clinic bother paying premium prices to harvest ova when they could have paid the market rate (which would be less suspicious)? Also, why specifically ova fr......more

This book started off well and had it stayed like this I would have given it a 3. But the main characters' inane talk and unbelievably stupid behaviour earned it a 2. They're trying to escape, but stop to examine things and engage in inane talk. Oh come on, this is not believable I wanted to shout.......more


Quotes

“[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