Coma
By Robin Cook
- Release Date: 2014-09-23
- Genre: Mysteries & Thrillers
Description
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?
Reviews
Great medical thriller
4By OxhockeyThe story took a while to develop but it launched into some great suspense. Sometimes you felt as though most of the characters were so naive. How could they not think of a motive or reason for what is happening? Though it’s full of antiquated feminism vs. chauvinism ideologues it was still a thrilling novel.Quite possibly the creepiest medical thriller ever written!
5By ES the horror fanWOW!!! I wanted to read this book because I was a huge fan of the movie! I still love the movie, but it barely does this exceptional book justice! Suspenseful, exciting, and too scary to imagine! It’s ridiculously easy to see why this book became such a gigantic classic, one that immediately established Robin Cook as a master of suspense!Coma
1By MandeeeymeDownloaded book and was unable to open book after paying $9.99. BOOK WILL NOT OPEN on IBooks