Robin cook is one such Sci-Fi authors brought directly from the medical field. Something like his famous colleague Oliver sacks but entirely devoted to fiction in the case of Cook. And there is no one better than him to hypothesize about diverse futures about the human being; with the knowledge of genetics as that fertile space for assumptions of all colors.
Without taking into account the possible battles against those small microorganisms that stalk our civilization like cyclical pandemics that today more than ever seem to be a reality...
Since his appearance first novel «Coma»Back in 1977, the pen of this octogenarian author has not ceased to be lavished in settings where medicine can only wander, both for its fictions and for current realities.
However, the science fiction of Robin Cook has that I do not know how popular. It is not a pure CiFi, with unknown scenarios and ultra-scientific approaches. For Cook it is more about exposing about close surroundings, fanciful approaches and arranging a plot of investigation or mystery around the core of that plot.
From this good writer, bestseller for many years around the world, I am left with ...
Top 3 recommended books by Robin Cook
Impostors
The novel "Imposters" raises the sinister idea of the doctor disturbed or perhaps moved by evil interests capable of being put before people's lives. What are you imposing and why is the person in charge of hiding murders in medical rulings?
Reading Cook always manages to fill that idea of hospitals with a more disturbing point than they already have. Because no one likes to enter a hospital, a common sign of illness, but to think that characters like the mysterious murderer hidden in this novel could exist... Fiction, of course everything is limited to fiction. And even in this we find the normal emblem of medical personnel. Because Noah Rothauser is that capable doctor, determined to improve the practice of a medicine that is increasingly supported by technology and ultimately very human.
That is why the fiasco of a very new technology to be implemented in his hospital in Boston affects him greatly and launches him to a detailed investigation into what could go wrong for a patient to end up dying. Anesthesiology is a medical practice that summarizes the physiological, the analytical and the chemical. An anesthetist has the power to keep you between here and there. And seen like this, in the hands of an insane man, the matter can lead to the end ...
What Noah is finding out about his staff will lead us to an investigation with pleasure at Agatha Christie, with that circle of possible criminals on which we are guided to shuffle where the seed of that evil is, because, what is worse, the matter does not stop there and new patients end up crossing that threshold between sedation and death . And Noah has to act with haste and intuition to end up discovering everything without ending the same peppered by doubt ...
Chromosome 6
Perhaps he marks this one as one of his best novels because it was the first one that passed through my hands. A good gift from someone who is also dedicated to medicine ...
The murdered corpse of a notorious mobster disappears from the morgue before an autopsy has been performed. Some time later he reappears decapitated, mutilated and without a liver. The deplorable condition of the body draws the attention of the forensic pathologist responsible for the identification of the body, Dr. Jack Stapleton, who undertakes an investigation from which no one will emerge unscathed.
Indeed, the abominable outrage to which the body was subjected is the tip of the iceberg of a sinister genetic manipulation program whose epicenter is in Equatorial Guinea, where Stapleton travels accompanied by two intrepid nurses and his attractive girlfriend. At the end of the labyrinth they will find a plot of sinister interests whose sole purpose is to enrich themselves, even at the cost of causing a genetic disaster of devastating proportions.
Lethal anesthesia
Reissued in Spain recently, this novel published already in 2015 in many other countries presents us with a fast-paced story that moves us between the dark offices of a hospital where something extremely rugged is brewing.
The involvement of the protagonist, a medical student who has lost her boyfriend in that hospital and under strange circumstances completes the plot towards an emotional side.
Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student, thinks her life is already organized, but when her boyfriend Carl walks into the hospital for a simple knee operation, all her expectations fall apart. After the intervention Carl, until then healthy, does not regain consciousness and brain death is confirmed.
Desolate by events, Lynn embarks on a search for answers. She's convinced there's something else they don't want to tell her about, so she uses whatever resources she has at her disposal, including her reluctant lab partner Michael Pender, to find evidence of possible medical negligence.
When Lynn and Michael receive death threats, they know they have something much worse on their hands than they had imagined and will wage a fight against time to unmask those involved before they finish them off.
Other recommended books by Robin Cook…
Night shift
Night shifts are very useful in any hospital as the setting for any suspense plot. In the hands of Robin Cook the matter reaches unsuspected levels of tension...
The last thing that the couple formed by doctors Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton need in their already complicated life is a crime. But the unexpected death of one of Laurie's best friends is too suspicious not to be investigated thoroughly.
Dr. Sue Passero dies in the parking lot of Manhattan Memorial Hospital just after finishing her shift. Jack is responsible for performing the corresponding autopsy, and after a preliminary examination he considers that the heart attack, which was presented as the possible cause of death in the first place, is an inconsistent explanation, so he decides to postpone his conclusions and investigate. circumstances, even if that means challenging the rules.
What began as an investigation into Sue's tragic death soon turns into a deadly and dangerous game between Jack and an intelligent, deranged killer, ready to strike at a moment's notice.
deadly virus
The viral is no longer a matter of apocalyptic fictions. Who more who less has suffered in their flesh what a pandemic of the first magnitude supposes. So what brings us here Robin Cook has that point of closest risk, of disturbing certainty...
A tiger mosquito bites Emma Murphy during a beach barbecue on vacation with her family. On the way home, Emma has a seizure and her husband, police officer Brian Murphy, rushes her to the ER. An unnecessary decision according to the medical insurer, which she refuses to take care of the astronomical hospital bill.
As the center's administration presses him to agree on a payment plan, Emma is released by the doctors even though her health has not improved. Soon after, her four-year-old daughter Juliette also begins to show symptoms. Overwhelmed by the tremendous emotional impact, Brian decides to fight the greed of the insurance company and the attitude of the hospital. When he meets other victims of this type of practice, he understands that there is strength in unity.
The manipulation of minds
This novel, originally from 1985, was extremely interesting to me because of its theme about the manipulation of large companies. Being in the case of the pharmaceutical companies a real ethical dilemma due to their ability to govern even our most basic chemistry, the one on which our will rests…, Adam Schonberg is a young medical student recently married and in financial distress.
When he receives the news that his wife has become pregnant, he is forced to put aside his moral scruples and accept a job as a salesman at the powerful pharmaceutical company Arolen, known for its control over its medical professionals. Once at the company, Adam begins to discover evidence that something very strange is going on. Her curiosity leads her to delve into the ins and outs of the pharmaceutical giant to discover how thin the line is that separates the noble goal of medicine from the corruptible power it bestows.
Pandemic
Medical science fiction takes on another dimension in the hands of a doctor turned writer. A successful reissue for these times. A pandemic space in which Robin Cook moves like a fish in water to make him one of the most disturbing authors in the new reality thriller that we already know is stalking us very closely.
When an apparently healthy young woman suddenly collapses on the New York subway and dies on arrival at the hospital, her case is attributed to an aggressive form of the flu. Until she ends up on the autopsy table of veteran forensic doctor Jack Stapleton, who discovers some surprising anomalies: the young woman had undergone a heart transplant and, furthermore, her DNA matches that of the organ received.
After two other victims die similarly withering deaths, Jack begins to fear that the city is facing an unprecedented pandemic. And when new cases are discovered in Los Angeles, London and Rome, Jack must race against time to find out what kind of virus can wreak havoc. His research leads him to a fascinating new type of genetic engineering that is making the scientific community dream…and attracting the attention of its less scrupulous members.
Is Genesis the last book Robin Cook has written
Is he writing more
Hello. Interesting your comments. I would like to ask you a question…. Do you know why Robin Cook's books have not been published since 2020? I follow this author, and I view his website from time to time, and I have observed that he has like THREE NEWS that have not been published in Spain. I have transferred this question to its usual editorial, and the most absolute silence for an answer. Do you have or can obtain an answer to the above. Thanks for your attention.
Good afternoon, Francisco.
I do not know the reasons why the news from Robin Cook is not arriving.
Could it be that medical thrillers are not so popular around here now ...