Fever: A Gripping and Chilling Thriller from the Master of the Medical Mystery

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Fever is a fast-paced thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook. When his wife died of cancer and he desperately needed to know why, Doctor Charles Martel turned to research. Then his world is shattered for the second time. His daughter is admitted to hospital; his research project is cancelled. Suddenly, he's a man fighting against the odds. Against doctors who want to treat his daughter's leukaemia the wrong way. Against a research institute that puts profits before ethics. Odds enough to turn a responsible citizen into a desperate criminal . . .

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The master of the medical thriller. * New York Times *

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Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word 'medical' to the thriller genre, and decades after the publication of his 1977 breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce over thirty international bestsellers, including Outbreak, Terminal, Contagion, Chromosome 6, Foreign Body, Intervention and Cure.