[bksvol-discuss] Book submitted: Vital Signs
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 10:23:31 -0500
Book to replace the "fair" copy in the collection. Also whoever does this
one, there is now a short and long synopsis, that need to be addred to the
comments file to be fixed.
.rtf file. Read through, and spell checked, I protected the chapter
headings where I thought they needed it.
Vital Signs
By Robin Cook
From the book jacket:
Where life begins, terror lurks. . . . Only Robin Cook, acknowledged master
of the technomedical thriller, could have written this supremely chilling
novel about the passion to create life-and the power to destroy it.
Millions of readers met crusading epidemiologist Marissa Blumenthal in the
pages of the bestselling Outbreak. Now Robin Cook brings back his feisty
heroine in a gripping new tale, Vital Signs-a roller-coaster ride into the
unexpected and the utterly unconscionable.
In the eyes of her envious peers, Marissa has it all: a superb professional
reputation, a flourishing pediatrics practice, even a fairy tale marriage
with the man of her dreams-Robert Buchanan, an entrepreneur involved in
health-care administration and research.
But there is one thing Marissa does not have: the child she desperately
desires. And when tests confirm that her sealed fallopian
tubes have rendered her infertile, her perfect world begins to crumble.
Obsessed with becoming pregnant, Marissa barely even notices the disastrous
effect her fixation is having on her marriage and career.
When a little medical sleuthing points to suspicious origins of her
infertility, Marissa boldly challenges the law. Along with Wendy, a new
friend with a similar infertility problem, she breaks into a fertility
clinic, travels to Australia, a center of in-vitro fertilization, then on to
Hong Kong.
The two women's exploration of the brave new world of reproductive
technologies takes a shocking turn when Wendy is violently killed-and
Marissa's own life is mysteriously threatened. But personal danger does not
deter her, and she allows herself to be drawn into the dark vortex of the
baby- making business, where a woman's dearest dream turns slowly,
agonizingly to dread
Timely, top-notch suspense that will grip the reader from the very first
page, Vital Signs proves once again the unique and compelling genius of
Robin Cook.
Dr. Robin Cook, a graduate of the Columbia University medical school,
finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard. He is currently on
leave from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He lives and writes in
Florida.
Shelley L. Rhodes and Judson, guiding golden
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