Shock

Author Robin Cook
Read by Kate Burton
$15.00 US
Audio | Penguin Audio
On sale Jan 01, 1999 | 5 Hours and 45 Minutes | 9780786558155
Sales rights: US, Canada, Open Mkt

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Two graduate students decide to solve their financial problems by becoming egg donors at an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston’s North Shore. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying aims of its research, immediately putting their lives—and their sanity—irrevocably at risk. . . . 

Posited on up-to-the-minute science, Shock is a spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok by the bestselling master of medical suspense.

“[An] infectious medical thriller . . . delightfully readable.”Kirkus Reviews
 
“One of the most memorable of Robin Cook’s medical thrillers.”—The Associated Press
 
“Leave it to doctor-turned-novelist Robin Cook to scare us all to death.”Los Angeles Times

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Two graduate students decide to solve their financial problems by becoming egg donors at an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston’s North Shore. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying aims of its research, immediately putting their lives—and their sanity—irrevocably at risk. . . . 

Posited on up-to-the-minute science, Shock is a spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok by the bestselling master of medical suspense.

Praise

“[An] infectious medical thriller . . . delightfully readable.”Kirkus Reviews
 
“One of the most memorable of Robin Cook’s medical thrillers.”—The Associated Press
 
“Leave it to doctor-turned-novelist Robin Cook to scare us all to death.”Los Angeles Times