Cure Hardcover - 2010
by Cook, Robin
- Used
Number-one New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook returns with another heart-pounding story of medical intrigue.
"Cook can write up a storm and spin a taut tale...a master." - Kirkus Reviews
With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, where she's been employed for more than two decades. Worried about whether she still has what it takes after so much time away, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler of the highest order, involving organized crime and two start-up bio-tech companies caught in a zero-sum game. Against the advice of her colleagues and her husband, fellow medical examiner Jack Stapleton, Laurie is determined to solve the mystery the case comes to represent.
Satoshi Machita, a former Kyoto University researcher, is set to own a valuable patent controlling pluripotent stem cells, which are destined to spark a trillion-dollar industry of regenerative medicine. When he dies on a crowded New York subway platform, Laurie must decide whether his death was natural - or something more fiendish.
Behind the scenes, there are people who would like to see Laurie as far away from the investigation as possible. Despite threats against her, Laurie presses on, until threats are carried out against the person she loves most in the world: her son, JJ. Suddenly Laurie must face solving the crime - and saving her son's life.
Description
Details
- Title Cure
- Author Cook, Robin
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 416
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2010-08-10
- Bookseller's Inventory # 2017303-6
- ISBN 9780399156625 / 0399156623
- Weight 1.36 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 9.28 x 6.6 x 1.43 in (23.57 x 16.76 x 3.63 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Spy stories, Murder
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010015721
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work, only to face the case of her career. The investigation into the death of CIA agent Kevin Markham is a professional challenge-and has Laurie's colleagues wondering if she still has what it takes after so much time away.
Markham's autopsy results are inconclusive, and though it appears he's been poisoned, toxicology fails to corroborate Laurie's suspicions. While her coworkers doubt her assassination theory, her determination wins over her husband, fellow medical examiner Jack Stapleton, and together they discover associations to a large pharmaceutical company and several biomedical start-ups dealing with stem-cell research. Laurie and Jack race to connect the dots before they are consumed in a dangerous game of biotech espionage.
