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Focus Fiction: Read-A-Likes - Robin Cook

Jack M. Bickham - Miracle-Worker [FICTION BICKHAM]

  • A small-town doctor is determined to maintain his reputation as the miracle worker, even if it means prescribing unapproved durgs.

Paul Breeze - In Harm's Way [MYSTERY BREEZE]

  • A cluster of leukemia cases and an investigator's suicide may be connected to secret government testing in England.

Sigmund Brouwer - Double Helix [FICTION BROUWER]

  • Dr. Josef Van Klees' lust for immortality leads to top-secret genetic experiments and involuntary organ "donations."

Margaret Cuthbert - Silent Cradle [FICTION CUTHBERT]

  • Fighting to save the hospital obstetrics unit, Dr. Rae Duprey finds both her career and life threatened when she becomes the top suspect in a series of dangerous incidents and deaths during routine deliveries.

William Dantz - Nine Levels Down [FICTION DANTZ]

  • The experimental device implanted in his brain fails to control a serial killer's murderous behavior.

Tess Gerritsen - Harvest [FICTION GERRITSEN]

  • A surgical resident discovers that donor records are being falsified and the hospital itself is involved.

Chuck Hogan - Blood Artists [FICTION HOGAN]

  • With clean blood in short supply, two rival doctors join together to fight the attack of a deadly and seemingly intelligent virus.

William Katz - Facemaker [FICTION KATZ]

  • Carly Randall is thrilled with the results of her cosmetic surgery until a distraught mother claims that Carly has her missing daughter's face.

Harry Kraus - Fated Genes [FICTION KRAUS]

  • Pediatric surgeon Brad Forrest risks losing everything, including his family, when someone tries to frame him to conceal secret experiments in gene splicing.

Patrick Lynch - Carriers [FICTION LYNCH]

  • Holly Becker goes to the Indonesian rain forest to look for her two young daughters, who may be victims of a plague-like outbreak.

John S. Marr & John Baldwin - The Eleventh Plague [FICTION MARR]

  • Noted virologist Jack Byrne sets out to track down the serial killer who is re-enacting the biblical plagues in a vindictive wave of bioterrorism.

Robert Mawson - The Lazarus Child [FICTION MAWSON]

  • Desperate to bring their daughter out of a coma, the Heywoods take a chance and put Frankie in the hands of neurologist Lizzie Chase and her revolutionary treatment.

Timothy Miller - Practice to Deceive [FICTION MILLER]

  • Dr. Lionel Stern learns that the flashy king of a cosmetic surgery empire is dealing in more than silicone.

C.W. Morton & Jack Mobley - Rage Sleep [FICTION MORTON]

  • The new anesthetic Anaex promises an ideally short recovery time for politicians and military leaders, but its unexpected side effect of rage and violent behavior pushes the U.S. to the brink of war.

John J. Nance - Pandora's Clock [FICTION NANCE]

  • A pilot finds that no country will allow his packed jet to land because a passenger was exposed to the deadly Ebola virus.

Pierre Ouellette - The Third Pandemic [FICTION OUELLETTE]

  • As a lethal plague crashes toward America's shores, a corporation withholds the drug that can cure it.

Michael Palmer - Natural Causes [FICTION PALMER]

  • Dr. Sarah Baldwin fights to save her career when three of her patients die mysteriously during childbirth.

Stanley Pottinger - The Fourth Procedure [FICTION POTTINGER]

  • Autopsied bodies, their livers replaced by little dolls, start turning up at the D.C. medical examiner's office.

Steven Spruill - Painkiller [FICTION SPRUILL]

  • A resident's investigation of a psychiatric ward soon lands her in the same ward as a patient.

Harry Stein - The Magic Bullet (1995) [FICTION STEIN]

  • A doctor's possible cure for breast cancer is subverted by a deadly conspiracy.

F. Paul Wilson - The Select [FICTION WILSON]

  • Quinn Cleary discovers a suspicious monitoring device in her medical school dorm that seems to affect behavior.

Updated: 9/29/04

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