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Vital Signs by Robin Cook

Vital Signs by Robin Cook

      
Where life begins, terror lurks... In the eyes of her envious peers, Marissa has it all: a superb professional reputation, a flourishing pediatrics practice, even a fairytale marriage with the man of her dreams - Robert Buchanan, an entrepreneur involved in health-care administration and research. But there is one thing Marissa does not have: the child she desperately desires. And when tests confirm that her sealed fallopian tubes have rendered her infertile, her perfect world begins to crumble. Obsessed with becoming pregnant. Marissa barely even notices the disastrous effect of her idee fixe is having on her marriage and career. When a little medical sleuthing points to suspicious origins of her infertility, Marissa boldly challenges the law. Along with Wendy, a new friend with a similar infertility problem, she breaks into a fertility clinic, travels to Australia, a center of in-vitro feertilization, then on to Hong Kong.

The two women's exploration of the brave new world of reproductive technologies takes a shocking turn when Wendy is violently killed - and Marissa's own life is mysteriously threatened. But personal danger does not deter her, and she allows herself to be drawn into the dark vortex of the babymaking business, where a woman's dearest dream

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0425131769
0613225759
0399139648

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recent publishing history

Mass Market Paperback

Feb-1992

Berkley

ISBN: 0425131769

ISBN13: 9780425131763

First Edition

Hardcover

Jan-1991

Putnam

ISBN: 0399135758

ISBN13: 9780399135750


Hardcover

Jan-1992

Turtleback Books

Library Binding

ISBN: 0606009353

ISBN13: 9780606009355


Hardcover

Feb-1992

Turtleback Books

Library Binding

ISBN: 0613225759

ISBN13: 9780613225755


Hardcover

Oct-1994

Putnam

Harmful Intent / Vital Signs / Blindsight

ISBN: 0399139648

ISBN13: 9780399139642


Hardcover

Dec-1994

Buccaneer Books

Library Binding

ISBN: 1568492677

ISBN13: 9781568492674

eBook (Kindle)

Feb-1992

Berkley


eBook

Feb-1992

Penguin

ISBN: 1101203501

ISBN13: 9781101203507

Audio Cassette

Feb-1991

Simon & Schuster Audio

ISBN: 0671729721

ISBN13: 9780671729721


Audio Cassette

May-1999

Simon & Schuster Audio

ISBN: 0671046268

ISBN13: 9780671046262

 

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published

Jan-1991 (hardcover)

Feb-1992 (paperback)

time period

Contemporary

genres

Suspense

sub-genres

Medical Thriller