Cure [LP]
"...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 p...
| Main Author: | Cook, Robin, 1940- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Detroit :
Thorndike Press,
2010.
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| Edition: | Large print ed. |
| Series: |
Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery series ;
10. |
| Subjects: |
| Summary: |
"...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 biotech companies caught in a zero sum game...." --inside front cover. |
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| Item Description: |
Originally published: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010. |
| Physical Description: |
647 p. (large print) ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781410427632 1410427633 |
| Author Notes: |
In 1979, Cook wed Barbara Ellen Mougin, on whom the character Denise Sanger in Brain is based. When Year of the Intern did not do particularly well, Cook began an extensive study of other books in the genre to see what made a bestseller. He decided to focus on suspenseful medical mysteries, mixing intricately plotted murder and intrigue with medical technology, as a way to bring controversial ethical and social issues affecting the medical profession to the attention of the general public. His subjects include organ transplants, genetic engineering, experimentation with fetal tissue, cancer research and treatment, and deadly viruses. Cook put this format to work very successfully in his next books, Coma and Sphinx, which not only became bestsellers, but were eventually adapted for film. Three others, Terminal, Mortal Fear, and Virus, and Cook's first science- fiction work, Invasion, have been television movies. In 2014 her title, Cell made The New York Times Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) |