Coma

Robin Cook

Sep 2014 · Sold by Mulholland Books

About this ebook

The blockbuster bestseller that kickstarted a new genre--the medical thriller--is now available in trade paperback for the first time.
They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures--were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up.
Susan Wheeler is a third-year medical student working as a trainee at Boston Memorial Hospital. Two patients during her residency mysteriously go into comas immediately after their operations due to complications from anesthesia. Susan begins to investigate the causes behind both of these alarming comas and discovers the oxygen line in Operating Room 8 has been tampered with to induce carbon monoxide poisoning.
Then Susan discovers the evil nature of the Jefferson Institute, an intensive care facility where patients are suspended from the ceiling and kept alive until they can be harvested for healthy organs. Is she a participant in--or a victim of--a large-scale black market dealing in human organs?

Ratings and reviews

I really enjoyed Dr. Cook's first medical thriller. It delivered suspense, scary characters, danger and a hint of romance. But my copy of the book stopped suddenly where it should have at least finished the page. I feel there should have been an epilogue to explain what happened at the end. I don't know where in the publishing process Google (or whoever) gets its books or why they might choose to truncate but this is bad.

It has a great concept and the detail is good. But honestly it felt boring to me.

Excellent read.

About the author

Dr. Robin Cook is the author of thirty previous books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his wildly successful first novel, Coma. He divides his time between Boston and Florida.