The Resource Pandemic, Robin Cook
Pandemic, Robin Cook
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The item Pandemic, Robin Cook represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 15 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
Resource Information
The item Pandemic, Robin Cook represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 15 library branches.
This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
- Summary
- "The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second, that her DNA matches that of the transplanted heart. Strangely, two more incidences of young people with this same sudden and rapid illness follow, and Jack fears that this could be the start of an unprecedented pandemic. But the facts aren't adding up. Something is off about these cases, something creepy, and only Jack can figure it out before it's too late. Thus begins a race against time, during which Jack unveils the dark underbelly of the organ-transplant market. His name is Bui Zhao, a businessman and hospital board member who has been cheating the system by using organs and cells from chimeric pigs, via the gene-editing biotechnology CRISPER/CAS9, which allows pig genes to be inserted into living human cells. In a climactic mortal showdown, Jack must face Zhao, the megalomaniac willing to risk the fate of the world to pursue his commercial interests, if he wants to save the future of medicine"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Pandemic
- Title
- Pandemic
- Statement of responsibility
- Robin Cook
- Subject
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- trueBusinesspeople
- trueConspiracies
- trueCoroners
- trueEpidemics
- FICTION / Suspense
- Fiction
- Heart -- Transplantation -- Fiction
- Influenza
- Influenza -- Fiction
- Medical fiction
- trueMedical novels
- trueMontgomery, Laurie (Fictitious character)
- trueNew York City
- Sale of organs, tissues, etc -- Fiction
- trueStapleton, Jack (Fictitious character)
- Suspense fiction
- trueTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- trueBiotechnology
- trueBlack market
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The explosive new medical thriller from New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook. After a young, seemingly healthy woman collapses suddenly on the NYC subway and dies by the time she reaches the hospital, her case is initially chalked up to a virulent strain of influenza. That is, until she ends up on Dr. Jack Stapleton's autopsy table, where Jack discovers something eerily fishy: First, that the young woman has had a heart transplant, and second, that her DNA matches that of the transplanted heart. Strangely, two more incidences of young people with this same sudden and rapid illness follow, and Jack fears that this could be the start of an unprecedented pandemic. But the facts aren't adding up. Something is off about these cases, something creepy, and only Jack can figure it out before it's too late. Thus begins a race against time, during which Jack unveils the dark underbelly of the organ-transplant market. His name is Bui Zhao, a businessman and hospital board member who has been cheating the system by using organs and cells from chimeric pigs, via the gene-editing biotechnology CRISPER/CAS9, which allows pig genes to be inserted into living human cells. In a climactic mortal showdown, Jack must face Zhao, the megalomaniac willing to risk the fate of the world to pursue his commercial interests, if he wants to save the future of medicine"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10745337
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1940-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Cook, Robin
- Dewey number
- 813/.54
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- Series statement
- Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series
- Series volume
- 0011
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- FICTION / Suspense
- Influenza
- Heart
- Sale of organs, tissues, etc
- Influenza
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Pandemic, Robin Cook
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1030215935
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525535331
- Lccn
- 2018038076
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1030215935
- Label
- Pandemic, Robin Cook
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- on1030215935
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 386 pages
- Isbn
- 9780525535331
- Lccn
- 2018038076
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1030215935
Subject
- trueBusinesspeople
- trueConspiracies
- trueCoroners
- trueEpidemics
- FICTION / Suspense
- Fiction
- Heart -- Transplantation -- Fiction
- Influenza
- Influenza -- Fiction
- Medical fiction
- trueMedical novels
- trueMontgomery, Laurie (Fictitious character)
- trueNew York City
- Sale of organs, tissues, etc -- Fiction
- trueStapleton, Jack (Fictitious character)
- Suspense fiction
- trueTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc
- Thrillers (Fiction)
- trueBiotechnology
- trueBlack market
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