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      Shock

      by Robin Cook
      Published
      Jan 2001
      Main Genre
      Medical Thriller Medical Thriller
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      352
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      NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this "infectious medical thriller" (Kirkus Reviews) from the renowned author of Coma, two young women, curious about their donated eggs, uncover a plot more sinister than either of them could have imagined. . . .

      "Leave it to doctor-turned-novelist Robin Cook to scare us all to death."—Los Angeles Times
       
      Graduate students Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner respond to a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: An exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic northwest of Boston is willing to pay top dollar to a few attractive, slim, athletic Ivy League egg donors.
       
      But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying aims of its research, immediately putting their lives—and their sanity—irrevocably at risk. . . .

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      General Fiction Suspense

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      Amateur Sleuth Medical Thriller Private Investigator Thriller

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      Sep 2002 Berkley ISBN13 9780425182864 ISBN10 042518286X
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      Aug 2001 Putnam Berkley Audio ISBN13 9780399146343 ISBN10 0399146342
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      Jan 2002 Thorndike Press ISBN13 9780786226399 ISBN10 0786226390
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