Beschrijving

When a bizarre disease that attacks only physicians and their patients sweeps the country, Dr. Melissa Blumenthal discovers that sinister forces are behind the threat and finds her life in danger

ISBN 0-399-13187-6!

Outbreak.

Robin Cook.

His most harrowing, most timely novel of medical horror since Coma.

Outbreak is Robin Cook at his hair-raising best. Blending a premise of consummate public concern with a galvanizing suspenseful pot, he has perhaps created his signature work.

When the director of a Los Angeles health maintenance clinic succumbs, along with seven patients, to an untreatable – and virulently contagious – virus, Atlanta’s Center for Disease Control goes on red alert. Unless the virus is isolated and checked, mankind may be facing its gravest medical crisis since the Black Death.

Assigned by the CDC to investigate the disease, Dr. Melissa Blumenthal is soon caught p in the ultimate nightmare. The California case is merely the first in a burgeoning series of outbreaks that occur in unrelated geographical areas but with puzzling commonalities: The locations are always heatlh0care facilities, and the victims are only physicians and their patients.

As her investigations takes increasingly bizarre turns, Melissa finds that behind the natural threat lurks a far more sinister possibility: sabotage.

Before she discovers the truth, Melissa must overcome her superiors’ fury, her colleagues’ doubts – and the wrath of a powerful cabal, sworn to achieve its aims, no matter what the cost in human life – including Melissa’s.

Brilliantly imagined, fiendishly compelling, Outbreak is superb Robin Cook – the kind of speculative chiller that will reverberate the reader’s awareness long after the final page is turned.