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Vector (A Medical Thriller) Mass market paperback - 2000
by Cook, Robin
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Details
- Title Vector (A Medical Thriller)
- Author Cook, Robin
- Binding Mass Market Paperback
- Edition 1st Printing
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 395
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher G.P. Putnam's Sons, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-01-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0425172996-3-19247983
- ISBN 9780425172995 / 0425172996
- Weight 0.44 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 6.82 x 4.26 x 1.11 in (17.32 x 10.82 x 2.82 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, New York (N.Y.)
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
New York City cab driver Yuri Davydov is a disgruntled Russian emigre poised to lash out at the adoptive nation he believes has denied him the American Dream. A former technician in the Soviet biological weapons system, Biopreparat, Yuri possesses the knowledge to wreak havoc in his new home. But before he executes his planned piece de resistance of vengeance, he experiments first on his suspicious live-in girlfriend, then on a few poor-tipping fares.... Dr. Jack Stapleton and Dr. Laurie Montgomery (both last seen in Chromosome 6) begin to witness some unusual cases in their capacity as forensic pathologists in the city's medical examiner's office: a young, healthy black woman dies of respiratory failure, a Greek immigrant succumbs to a sudden, overwhelming pneumonia. At the same time, the pair are pressured from above to focus on a high-profile string of suspicious deaths of prisoners in police custody. When an unexpected breakthrough persuades Jack that these seemingly unrelated deaths are really connected murders, his colleagues and superiors are skeptical. Only Laurie is somewhat convinced. But the question soon becomes whether the pair will solve the puzzle before Yuri unleashes into the streets of New York the ultimate terror: a modern bioweapon. With signature skill, Robin Cook has crafted a page-turning thriller rooted in up-to-the-minute biotechnology. Vector is all-too-plausible fiction at its terrifying best.
First line
The hum of the commuter plane's engines was ragged.