Robin Cook
Robin Cook is an American ophthalmologist and novelist who essentially created the medical thriller genre with Coma, whose terrifying premise of patients being deliberately kept comatose to harvest organs tapped deep anxieties about medicine. His subsequent medical thrillers have consistently been bestsellers. He is considered the godfather of the medical thriller.
Works
- ComaMedical thriller about patients mysteriously comatose in a Boston teaching hospital
- OutbreakMedical thriller about a deadly plague outbreak traced to lab-created biological weapons
- MutationMedical thriller exploring genetic mutation and bioterrorism in a hospital setting
- TerminalMedical thriller about a psychiatric hospital where patients face deadly experimental treatments
- BrainMedical thriller about a brain tumor specialist uncovering sinister neurological research
- FeverMedical thriller about a mysterious fever outbreak and hospital conspiracy
- SphinxArchaeological thriller about a curse connected to an ancient Egyptian monument
- MindbendMedical thriller about mind control and a sinister conspiracy within the medical establishment