[bksvol-discuss] SUBMITTED: Marker by Robin Cook
- From: "Gerald Hovas" <geraldhovas@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 22:30:00 -0500
Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton are back in the latest book by Robin
Cook.
RTF file. Proof read, spell checked, and headers stripped. I've verified
the spelling of the medical terminology and the spelling of the French
words. 545 pages.
Gerald
Twenty-eight-year-old Sean McGillin is the picture of health, until he
fractures his leg while in-line skating in New York City's Central Park.
"Within twenty-four hours of his surgery, he dies.
A thirty-six-year-old mother, Darlene Morgan, has surgery to repair a torn
ligament in her knee. And within twenty-four hours, she is dead.
New York City medical examiners Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton
are back, in Robin Cook's electrifying twenty-fifth novel. Last seen in
Vector, the doctors now confront a ballooning series of puzzling hospital
deaths of young, healthy people who have just undergone successful routine
surgery.
Despite institutional resistance from her superiors, and from the staff at
Manhattan General, Laurie doggedly pursues the investigation as the death
toll mounts. It seems impossible to determine why and how the patients are
dying, yet she comes to suspect that not only are the deaths related-
they're intentional, suggesting the work of a remarkably clever healthcare
serial killer with a very unusual motive, which may involve frightening ties
to both developing genomic medicine and the economics of modern-day
healthcare.
As if to heighten the tension, Laurie is dealt a double blow: While coping
with" Jack's inability to commit to their relationship, she discovers she
carries a genetic marker for a breast-cancer gene. With her personal life
unraveling, the need for answers becomes more urgent, especially when she is
inexorably pulled into the nightmare as a possible victim herself. Time
winds down, and Laurie and Jack must race to connect the dots-and save her
life.
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