Marker

Robin Cook

Mar 2011 · Pan Macmillan

About this ebook

Marker is a fast paced medical thriller from the master of the genre, Robin Cook.

A young man seems the picture of health, until he fractures his leg while skating in New York’s Central Park. Within twenty-four hours of his surgical treatment he is dead. Next, a mother has knee surgery to repair a torn ligament in her knee – and within twenty-four hours she too has died.

Confronted with a series of puzzling deaths of young, healthy patients after routine treatment, medical examiners Dr. Laurie Montgomery and Dr. Jack Stapleton begin to investigate. Up against resistance from her superiors, and also coping with a personal life that continues to fragment, precipitated by Jack's inability to commit to their relationship, Laurie's need for answers becomes even more urgent.

Could all these deaths be intentional? With time winding down, she and Jack embark on a race to connect the dots . . .

Enjoy more medical mystery thrillers with Contagion, Vector, and Pandemic.

Ratings and reviews

Really good read, hard to put down once started. Only problem I found was apart from commas and full stops there was no punctuation which I often found quite irritating as it gave some words completely different meanings.

Very well written. However, the spelling errors and punctuation errors were very annoying.

One of the best medical thrillers I have read in a long time. One of the best by the author.

About the author

Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word ‘medical’ to the thriller genre and, decades after the publication of his 1977 breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Robin Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce more than thirty international bestsellers, including Outbreak, Terminal and Contagion.