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Death Benefit (eBook, ePUB)

eBook, ePUB
Death Benefit is an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook.
Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier scientist. Their cutting edge research could revolutionize health care; creating replacement organs. Thorough her work with the brilliant molecular geneticist Dr Tobias Rothman, Pia knows she will not only be given the chance to fulfil her professional ambitions - but also maybe finally all push aside memories of her difficult, abusive childhood.
However, tragedy strikes in the lab. Pia, with the help of infatuated classmate George Wilson, launches an investigation into the unforeseen calamity in the hospital's supposedly secure biosafety lab.
Meanwhile, two ex-Wall Street whiz-kids think they have found another lodestone in the nation's multi-trillion dollar life insurance industry, and race to find ways to control the data - and make a killing. And as Pia and George dig deeper into the events at the lab, matters become increasingly suspicious . . .
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10,95 €
Manner of Death
Manner of Death

Audio CD
"New York City's chief medical examiner, Laurie Montgomery, ignores her own professional rules to investigate the suspicious death of a colleague. It's a dangerous inquiry that might cost Laurie her life."--Provided by publisher.

 

39,45 €

Robin Cook

Robin Cook hat lange Jahre in der medizinischen Forschung und als HNO-Arzt gearbeitet. Inzwischen widmet er sich ganz dem Schreiben seiner Bestseller, von denen mehrere für das Fernsehen verfilmt wurden. Robin Cook sagt von sich, dass er die Leser mit seinen Medizin-Thrillern einerseits unterhalten will, andererseits möchte er auf die Gefahren aufmerksam machen, die die medizinische Forschung, aber auch die Praxis täglich mit sich bringen. Er lebt heute als freier Schriftsteller mit seiner Frau in Florida.