Foreign Body
(Sprache: Englisch)
A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends an idealistic medical student on a desperate search for answers in this chilling tale
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A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends an idealistic medical student on a desperate search for answers in this chilling tale
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Jennifer Hernandez is a fourth-year medical student at UCLA whose world is shattered during an otherwise ordinary day. While half-listening to a news report on medical tourism, where first-world citizens travel to third-world countries for surgery, she hears her beloved grandmother's name mentioned, and her own heart nearly stops: the reporter says Maria Suarez-Hernandez had died, a day after undergoing a hip replacement in New Delhi's Queen Victoria Hospital.Maria raised Jennifer and her brothers from infancy, and their bond was unshakable. Still, the news that Maria had travelled to India is a shock to Jennifer, until she realizes it was the only viable option for the hardworking yet uninsured woman. Devastated, Jennifer takes emergency leave from school and heads to India, where relations with local officials go from sympathetic to sour as she presses for information. With the discovery of other unexplained deaths followed by hasty cremations, Jennifer reaches out to her mentor, New York City medical examiner Dr Laurie Montgomery.
Laurie, along with her husband, Dr Jack Stapleton, rushes to the younger woman's side. And as the death count grows, so do the questions, leading Laurie and Jennifer to unveil a sinister, multilayered conspiracy of global proportions.
Autoren-Porträt von Robin Cook
Robin Cook hat lange Jahre in der medizinischen Forschung und als HNO-Arzt gearbeitet. Inzwischen widmet er sich ganz dem Schreiben seiner Bestseller, von denen mehrere für das Fernsehen verfilmt wurden. Robin Cook sagt von sich, dass er die Leser mit seinen Medizin-Thrillern einerseits unterhalten will, andererseits möchte er auf die Gefahren aufmerksam machen, die die medizinische Forschung, aber auch die Praxis täglich mit sich bringen. Er lebt heute als freier Schriftsteller mit seiner Frau in Florida.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Robin Cook
- 2009, 480 Seiten, Maße: 11,1 x 3 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International
- ISBN-10: 0330445537
- ISBN-13: 9780330445535
- Erscheinungsdatum: 18.02.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
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aA top-notch thriller with the freshness and impact of his earlier efforts. . . . "Critical" is tightly written, and each supporting character is vivid and memorable. The novel is a credit to the medical genre, which Cook is generally thought to have created and made popular.a --"San Francisco Chronicle"
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