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Contagion
Contagion
Author: Robin Cook
Robin Cook's most frightening bestseller is "exciting...a good, fast read."(Denver Post) One of Cook's most successful-and timely-bestsellers. Contagion is a terrifying cautionary tale for the millennium as a deadly epidemic is spread not merely by microbes-but by sabotage.
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ISBN-13: 9780399141065
ISBN-10: 0399141065
Publication Date: 1995
Pages: 434
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  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 65 ratings
Publisher: Putnam Pub Group (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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abookaday avatar reviewed Contagion on + 12 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This book is a series of two Medical Examiner's in New York that alway seem to get into some sort of trouble as they solve the most unique crimes while still finding time to sort through their private lives.....Can't say more about Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton. Several books are currently available in this series: Vector, Marker, Chromosone 6 and Crisis which is the latest in the series. You will throughly enjoy them....once you start reading you can't put them down plus you learn so much about the medical field and the scary things that truly go on inside their quiet walls where they don't necessarily want the public to know about.
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Helpful Score: 2
Another book by Cook that I found very hard to put down. The plot is well written which makes it an easy and quick read. I have say that I did not see the ending coming.
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Helpful Score: 1
Great book and a cautionary tale of what could actually occur.
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I liked the book very much. It held my interest all the way through.
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Another book by Cook that I found very hard to put down. The plot is well written which makes it an easy and quick read. I have to say that I did not see the ending coming.
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Typical Robin Cook thriller!
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Cook at his best
sage-mae43 avatar reviewed Contagion on
Love these medical mysteries by Robin Cook! Not the same as the movie "contagion" if thats what you are looking for. This book nevertheless was about spreading microbes intentionally for the selfishness of a few fortune seekers. Good Read!
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From the undisputed master of the medical thriller comes the story of a deadly epidemic spread not merely by microbes but by sinsiter sabotage a terrifying cautionary tale for the millennuim as the health care giants collide.
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In Cook's numerous best-selling medical thrillers, the nasty microbes and lethal diseases are never as loathsome as the greedy villains who spread illness for profit. Here, a cynical forensics doctor suspects that a for-profit medical firm is murdering its more costly subscribers.


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