Books by Robin Cook
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GenesisOriginal publication date: 2019 When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social worker Kera Jacobsen shows up on Chief New York City Medical Examiner Laurie Montgomery's autopsy table, at first it appears she was the victim of a tragic yet routine drug overdose. But for Laurie and her new pathology resident, the brilliant but enigmatic Dr. Aria Nichols, little things aren't adding up. Kera's family and friends swear she never touched drugs... Read more |
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PandemicOriginal publication date: 2018 When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful of a repeat on the one hundredth anniversary of the nightmarish contagion, Jack autopsies the woman within hours of her demise and discovers some striking anomalies... Read more |
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CharlatansOriginal publication date: 2017 Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Known for its medical advances, the famed teaching hospital has fitted several ORs as "hybrid operating rooms of the future"—an improvement that seems positive until an anesthesia error during a routine procedure results in the death of an otherwise healthy man. Read more |
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HostOriginal publication date: 2015 Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina's Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death. Read more |
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CellOriginal publication date: 2014 George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to enter a profession on the brink of an enormous paradigm shift, foreshadowing a vastly different role for doctors everywhere. The smartphone is poised to take on a new role in medicine, no longer as a mere medical app but rather as a fully customizable personal physician capable of diagnosing and treating even better than the real thing. It is called iDoc. Read more |
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NanoOriginal publication date: 2013 After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her medical studies and takes a job at Nanobots, a lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology institute. Read more |
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Death BenefitOriginal publication date: 2011 Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to the twenty-five-trillion-dollar life-insurance industry, hoping to make a financial killing. Read more |
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CureOriginal publication date: 2010 With her son's cancer in complete remission, Dr. Laurie Montgomery returns to work and faces the case of her career. Does she still have what it takes after so much time away? Read more |
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InterventionOriginal publication date: 2009 New York City medical detective Jack Stapleton investigates the promises—and deadly risks—of alternative medicine and is led deep into the heart of a religious conspiracy... Read more |
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Foreign BodyOriginal publication date: 2008 A series of unexplained deaths in foreign hospitals sends an idealistic UCLA medical student on a desperate search for answers in this chilling tale from the master of the medical thriller. Read more |
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CriticalOriginal publication date: 2007 New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton return in this stunning new novel from the master of the medical thriller—a ripped-from-the-headlines tale of an innovative doctor's dangerous downward spiral. Read more |
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CrisisOriginal publication date: 2006 A terrifying story of a doctor who is sucked into the maelstrom of the current medical malpractice crisis. Read more |
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MarkerOriginal publication date: 2005 Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton confront a ballooning series of puzzling hospital deaths of young, healthy people who have just undergone successful routine surgery. Read more |
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SeizureOriginal publication date: 2003 What could bring an enigmatic, notorious southern senator, and a gifted, vigorously entrepreneurial researcher together? Religion, politics, and bioscience collide. Read more |
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ShockOriginal publication date: 2001 Two women respond to an ad to solve financial problems: a highly profitable fertility clinic is willing to pay top dollar to attractive, slim, athletic Ivy-league egg donors. When they become curious, the truth they discover far exceeds the worst they had imagined. Read more |
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AbductionOriginal publication date: 2000 A mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding—a discovery that will change everything we know about life on Earth... Read more |
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VectorOriginal publication date: 1999 Experts do not question whether a bioterrorism event will occur in the United States, only when... Read more |
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ToxinOriginal publication date: 1998 A gripping novel of bacterial poisoning and corporate malevolence, from the dean of medical thrillers. Read more |
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Chromosome 6Original publication date: 1997 When a notorious underworld figure is gunned down, his Mafioso competitors become prime suspects. Suspicions are fueled when the body disappears from the city morgue before it can be autopsied. A few days later, the mutilated body arrives, missing its liver. Read more |
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InvasionOriginal publication date: 1997 Invasion explores a sudden outbreak of strange new symptoms that defy diagnosis. The cause is unknown—an unknowable—because it is unlike anything humankind has ever seen... Read more |
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ContagionOriginal publication date: 1995 From the undisputed master of the medical thriller comes the story of a deadly epidemic spread not merely by microbes but by sinister sabotage—a terrifying cautionary tale for the millennium as the health care giants collide. Read more |
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Fatal CureOriginal publication date: 1994 A hair-raising, timely foray into the dark side of medical reform, proving that with "managed care" the unthinkable can be as close as the local hospital. Read more |
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Acceptable RiskOriginal publication date: 1994 Robin Cook confronts one of the most provocative issues of our time—a terrifying glimpse into the dangers of antidepressant drugs... Read more |
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TerminalOriginal publication date: 1993 A medical student and a nurse investigate medulloblastoma cases. By the time they uncover the truth about seemingly ground-breaking cures, the pair run afoul of the law, their medical colleagues, and the powerful, enigmatic director of the Forbes Center. Read more |
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BlindsightOriginal publication date: 1992 Set in Manhattan, Blindside tells of city forensic pathologist Dr. Laurie Montgomery's battle to foil a plot of unimaginable evil. Read more |
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Vital SignsOriginal publication date: 1991 Here is Robin Cook's most controversial medical thriller—the shocking story of experimental fertilization, the passion to create life, and the power to destroy it. Read more |
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Harmful IntentOriginal publication date: 1990 Robin Cook's explosive novel of a doctor accused of malpractice—a fugitive on the run who pierces the heart of a shocking medical conspiracy. Read more |
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MutationOriginal publication date: 1989 Drawing on a horror theme as old as Frankenstein, as fresh as tomorrow's headlines, Mutation is a chilling cautionary tale of the perils of genetic engineering. Dr. Victor Frank sought to create the son of his dreams—and invented a nightmare. Read more |
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Mortal FearOriginal publication date: 1988 When an eminent biomolecular geneticist dies violently before his eyes, a doctor must use more than his medical knowledge to explain what he comes to believe is murder, and to stop a scientific breakthrough from becoming a curse instead of a miracle. Read more |
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OutbreakOriginal publication date: 1987 When the director of an L.A. health maintenance clinic and seven patients succumb to an untreatable and virulently contagious virus, Atlanta's CDC goes on red alert. Mankind may be facing its gravest medical crisis since the Black Death. Read more |
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MindbendOriginal publication date: 1985 A gigantic drug firm has offered an aspiring young doctor a lucrative job that will help support his pregnant wife. It could make their dreams come true—or their nightmares... Read more |
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GodplayerOriginal publication date: 1983 Dr. Cassandra Kingsley is about to discover that neither her marriage nor her job is what she thought. And when she sets out to find the truth, it may just kill her. Read more |
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FeverOriginal publication date: 1982 Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers that his own daughter is the victim of leukemia. The cause: a chemical plant conspiracy that not only promises to kill her, but will destroy him as a doctor and a man if he tries to fight it... Read more |
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BrainOriginal publication date: 1981 Two doctors place their lives in jeopardy to find out why a young woman died on the operating table—and had her brain secretly removed. Read more |
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SphinxOriginal publication date: 1979 The bestselling master of medical suspense Robin Cook mines the mysteries of Egypt's magnificent past to deliver a one-of-a-kind thriller packed with compelling realism and unrelenting suspense. Read more |
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ComaOriginal publication date: 1977 They called it "minor surgery," but more than a dozen patients—all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures—were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up... Read more |
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Year of the InternOriginal publication date: 1972 A young intern goes through the year that promises to make him into a doctor, and threatens to destroy him as a human being. Read more |
Now in paperback!
When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Read more
Now in paperback!
Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical schedules to dealing with the fallouts from patient deaths. Read more
"Cook richly develops characters, allowing us to share their most personal thoughts and professional concerns."
—USA Today