Host, Robin Cook
Host, Robin Cook
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Host

Author: Robin Cook

Narrator: George Guidall

Unabridged: 11 hr 45 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/20/2015


Synopsis

The explosive new thriller from New York Times–bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook.
 
Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina’s Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death.

Devastated by Carl’s condition, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there’s more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, Lynn uses all her resources at Mason-Dixon—including her initially reluctant lab partner, Michael Pender—to hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice.

What she uncovers, however, is far more disturbing. Hospitals associated with Middleton Healthcare, including the Mason-Dixon Medical Center, have unnervingly high rates of unexplained anesthetic complications and patients contracting serious and terminal illness in the wake of routine hospital admissions.

When Lynn and Michael begin to receive death threats, they know they’re into something bigger than either of them anticipated. They soon enter a desperate race against time for answers before shadowy forces behind Middleton Healthcare and their partner, Sidereal Pharmaceuticals, can put a stop to their efforts once and for all.

About The Author

Dr. Robin Cook is the author of over thirty books and is credited with popularizing the medical thriller with his wildly successful 1977 novel, Coma. He divides his time between Boston and Florida. His most recent bestsellers include Cell, Death Benefit, and Cure.


Reviews

Goodreads review by OutlawPoet on October 23, 2015

Psst...I have to tell you something about Michael! It's been many years since I've read a Robin Cook book. While I do appreciate them, and give him full props for pretty much starting the Medical Thriller genre with books like Coma, I got just a bit tired of the formula. Having read Host, I may go bac......more

Goodreads review by Eva Therese on April 24, 2017

I started reading it because the words "medical thriller" were on the cover. I had never read a Robin Cook book before. The book was almost entirely mediocre, only made memorable by the amount of awkward writing in it. It reads like it was written by someone new to writing, who doesn't know which pa......more

Goodreads review by Angie on November 10, 2015

Host started off strong for me but gradually the stars dropped off a little;) I would define it is a medical suspense. It is more of a "surface" story... There's not much in the way of emotional depth with exception of the first chapter or two. That's ok, just know when you are going in. The storylin......more

Goodreads review by Lena on September 29, 2023

I've read a few books by Robin Cook. I even have one in Swedish so it must be over 22 years old! The medical mystery was too far realty. Lynn was really stupid!......more

Goodreads review by Archana on February 16, 2019

I've read many of Robin Cook's works and this one had an oddity about it, almost as though it was written by a ghost writer instead of the author himself. But, that could be just me. I liked this book but couldn't help but notice that plot line play out very similar to Coma. Hospital conspiracy, com......more


Quotes

Praise for Cell
 
“Rare is the writer who can take us into the fast-paced, miraculous, often bewildering world of modern medicine the way Robin Cook can. Cell is a superbly crafted, full-steam thriller, to be sure, but also a vivid lesson in just how momentous are the advances being made in medicine almost by the day—and how highly unsettling are some of the possible consequences.”
            —David McCullough, New York Times–bestselling author of The Greater Journey:           Americans in Paris
 
“Robin Cook has been entertaining medical-thriller fans for decades, but he does much more with his latest novel, Cell…Cook has written a thought-provoking story.”
            —Associated Press