Product Description

Through a crisis of medical malpractice emerges evidence of how the medical profession itself is being harmfully transformed by the intrusion of powerful business interests. Not least is the growing prevalence of ‘Concierge Medicine’ where public-service doctors will take on private patients for a fee.

In this thrilling story, which again features Dr Laurie Montgomery and Dr Jack Stapleton (whose long-term professional relationship here takes on a new twist), Robin Cook continues to enthral us with his deep personal insight into contemporary medicine but also provides readers with the biggest surprise ending found in any of his many bestselling novels.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #93832 in Books
• Published on: 2007-07-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 350 pages

Daily Mirror
'No one does medical thrillers quite like Cook'

Sport
'Chills, thrills, strong characters and plenty to ponder - the mark of a good Cook book.'

Nottingham Evening Post
‘Enthralling story…brilliant and totally absorbing.’

Customer Reviews

Some kind of "between" book from Cook
I'm one of those devoted fans of Cook who orders his books in hardcopy as soon as they get out (I don't want to wait for paperbacks or translations) and in the past I have enjoyed many of his books taking up ideas completely new and/or settings in exotic places - but this one was a disappointment. This was set more in courtroom than in hospital and was more about the systems around medicine in the States than a thriller. Especially for foreign readers, not having the type of problem with medical treatment the States has (I'm from Finland, Europe), this books is of little interest.

How did this get published?
It's hard to think when I last read such an amateurish and slipshod piece of work and I'm amazed it ever made it past an editor and into publication. Apart from the paper thin characters, numerous plot holes, narrative inconsistencies, a multiplicity of unresolved loose ends and an entirely predictable and wholly unsatisfactory ending, Cook seems to be using the novel to work out his many and varied prejudices which range from private medicine and medical malpractice litigation, to tobacco, caffeine, traffic and, oddly, Boston. Indeed, if anybody cared enough they could make a case that the book was anti-semitic and racist. Perhaps worse than all this is Cook's bizarre writing style and cloth-ear for dialogue which confuses frequent recourse to the thesaurus with erudition. It is profoundly irritating. But in the end, I hated this book not so much for its many faults, but for the cynicism that lies behind it. This was the first Robin Cook book I have read and it will be the last. But Cook seems to have a devoted fan base who deserve better.

Crisis-A Medical Mystery That Targets Concierge Medicine
The book starts off a bit slowly as Craig Bowman, a doctor with excellent clinical skills but poor bedside manner, loses a patient in his concierge medicine practice and gets sued. Dr. Bowman is accustomed to success and accolades and unravels under the implications of the lawsuit. He moves back in with his wife Alexis whose brother, Jack, is a medical examiner in New York. When Jack enters the story, the suspense and interest accelerate considerably. In a thriller/mystery such as this, not everything is as it seems to be as Jack digs through the layers to find out the truth. The book is a bit wordy but otherwise engaging. The courtroom scenes are especially well-done. The Griffon Trilogy: Pt. I