Robin-cook

Robin Cook, a medical doctor, is a founding father of the "medical thriller" genre of popular fiction.

His 1977 novel Coma was a sensation (and was turned into a film directed by another author/M.D., Michael Crichton).Cook's many other novels have included Outbreak (1987), Vital Signs (1991), and Toxin (1998). His 1999 novel Vector, the fictional tale of bioterrorists spreading anthrax in New York City, foreshadowed the real-life 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S.

Biotechnology - a blessing or a nightmare?- The story line is in sync with reality..who came 1st - the egg or the chicken ?The entire human race will act innocent after this question and probably wash their hands off the muck.

Politics, religion and bioscience collide in the latest medical thriller form the master story-teller in this field.Two seemingly opposite personalities clash during the senate hearings, yet the men have a common desire. Butler’s hunger for political power far outstrips his concern for the unborn; and Lowell’s pursuit of gargantuan personal wealth and celebrity overrides any considerations for patients’ well-being. In a perilous attempt to prematurely harness Lowell’s new technology, the therapy leaves the senator with the horrifying effects of temporal lobe epilepsy - seizures of the most bizarre order. Taken straight from tomorrow’s headlines, Seizure is a cautionary tale for a time when biotechnological discovery is pulling us into a promising yet frightening new world.

The world’s bestselling master of medical suspense here skilfully combines human passions and high-tech thrills in an eerie and disturbing drama that unfolds on the borders of the unknown.
In his most daring novel yet, a mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of divers and oceanographers -to investigate a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding .
. . . And to a discovery that will permanently change everything we have previously come to know about life on this Earth.
Manages a clever blend of science and fiction . . . frighteningly feasible’ Times
‘Leave it to doctor-turned-novelist robin Cook to scare us all to death’ Los Angeles Times

So the world is reading about fiction and wondering whether it can ever come true ...how people forget that Fact is stranger than fiction...all facts are in fact a manifestation of fiction, imagination, dreams..airplane, microwave oven ..electricity...

Rumours surface of a fellow donor's unexplained disappearance, they remain undeterred. The procedures seem to go smoothly, but second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women discover more. Stymied by the clinic's veil of secrecy, Deborah and Joanna obtain employment there to continue their probe. Working under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying true aims of Dr Windgate's research, immediately putting their lives - and their sanity - irrevocably at risk.

I don't understand why ladies put their lives in so much trouble ! wonder what kind of men - fathers, brothers, sons and lovers theses Americans are - how do they let the women - usually dainty darlings supposedly next to their hearts - as seen in movies ...how crazily they pursue love - eg. Something about Mary , Only You, Serendipity etc. But Robin Cook being a Best seller - I think ladies in America are not taken much care of by their male counterparts..and also vice versa - obviously its a tit for tat affair - U care - I care - u don't care - I don't care ..unlike India - where men seldom care and the females only care...nowadays ofcourse things are fast changing..learning from cable network, best sellers, movies, cartoons etc.

A shocking tale of bacterial poisoning and corporate malevolence - straight out of today 's worst headlines.
Recently divorced surgeon Dr Rim Reggis is determined to remain a good father to his only child, Becky. One night, he takes her to a favourite fast-food restaurant for a feast of burgers and fries - but tragedy strikes afterwards as the young girl becomes increasingly ill. She dies horrifically several days later, as a result of poisoning by E. coli bacteria.
Everything suggests that Becky's death was the result of shoddy food-handling practices, but who is likely to admit to that?
Frantic with grief and impotent rage, Rim throws all his energies into tracing the cause of the contamination. He is certainly prepared for bureaucratic indifference - but is also met with terrifying violence as powerful vested interests connive to discourage his enquiries.
Aided by his ex-wife, Rim doggedly follows a deadly trail of complicity and guilt stretching from the slaughterhouse floor to the corporate boardroom. And in a race against time, before others are poisoned, they finally come face to face with the shocking and elusive truth ... While putting their own lives in extreme danger.

So dear people , the facts and fiction and the fiction and facts all are existing and co-existing - and people are still wondering whether dream is a reality or reality is a dream - refer movie Matrix....and then such ideas get embedded in the minds of the people and devastating thingies begin to happen and people cry and look heavenwards - looking for GODS...! well excuse me - Scientists are making use of human beings as Guinea pigs - experimenting on them - introducing variety of germs and diseases - and then Nature comes up with a yet another germ ...eg. AIDS etc. and the scientists have something new to work on - well if foreign scientists are looking for human guinea pigs then they may contact India - we have ample number of people and are heading towards Population explosion at an alarmingly high rate..moreover there are several Indians who are already rich but are very greedy - they can sell just anyone and everyone - including their own mothers, daughters, sons, wives - just in order to get money ...and ofcourse honey - a young and brand new oomph instead of old, haggard fat wife - here men even sell their own children to make both ends meet - and the uneducated people are going on reproducing like rabbits !every year they reproduce as they believe that GODS are responsible for child birth !!