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A physician turned fugitive must save himself and stop a lethal drug-tampering plot in Robin Cook's most disturbing techno-chiller yet. Anesthesiologist Dr. Jeffrey Rhodes's nightmare begins with nerve-shattering swiftness, but it will haunt him always: he administers routine anesthesia during a normal birth. Suddenly the young, healthy mother goes into inexplicable seizures and dies; her infant survives but is severely disabled and brain damaged.

'Wonderful story which transfixes you from the start – this is the first novel I've read by this author but definitely not the last. The characters are beautifully written and the author effortlessly sucks you in to their worlds.' Reader review 5 Stars 'A beautifully written historical page-turner.' Reader review 5 Stars Two women. One house. Centuries of secrets. East Sussex Coast, 1855. Violet Hargreaves is the lonely daughter of a widowed industrialist, and an aspiring Pre-Raphaelite painter.

“Like a runaway locomotive—a manically entertaining thriller. Robin Cook knows how to make the pages fly.”—Kirkus Reviews At a prestigious Florida medical center, brain cancer patients are treated with a 100% success rate. Sean Murphy, a young medical student, finds it hard to believe. Is it a miracle cure? Or the biggest con job in the history of medicine? As Sean delves deeper into the mystery, he begins to uncover secrets that get at the heart of a nearly unbelievable conspiracy he never could have imagined...

Alger, décembre 1956. La ville est plongée dans la violence depuis maintenant plusieurs mois. Aux attentats du FLN répondent les exactions des fanatiques de l'Algérie française. Sous la pression des événements, le gouverneur général Robert Lacoste décide de faire appel aux parachutistes du général Massu pour rétablir l'ordre et pacifier la ville, par tous les moyens. Au même moment, des jeunes filles sont tuées dans le quartier européen. Deux flics, qui se haïssent de tout leur être, sont chargés de l'enquête.

New York Times bestselling author mines the mysteries of Egypt’s magnificent past to deliver a one-of-a-kind thriller packed with compelling realism and unrelenting suspense. Traveling to Egypt is a dream come true for Erica Baron. An Egyptologist, she longs to walk among the temples and monuments of its long-dead civilizations. But when she stumbles upon a clue to a legendary treasure, the most fearful curse of the ancient world and the most savage menace of the modern one threaten to destroy her.

A spellbinding American Southern Gothic thriller with a supernatural twist—a past secret has the power to destroy the future . . . When Lucy Cartaret dies, her journalist son Dan returns to her hometown, Fort Jude, Florida, in search of his real father, claiming he's here to investigate the mysterious deaths of three elderly women. Spontaneous human combustion, experts say. But why? Surely it's more than coincidence—and what links these deaths to Dan's mother?

Despite wars with Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as 9/11, the United States' dependence on foreign oil has kept the nation tied to the Middle East. A scientist develops a cure for America's addiction—a slow-acting virus that feeds on petroleum, turning it solid. But he fails to foresee that his contagion in an Iraqi oil field will spread to infect the world's fuel supply. In Los Angeles, screenwriter Dave Marshall hears this scenario from a retired U.S. Marine and government insider who consulted on his last film.

Méfiez-vous de qui vous tend les bras... « Serre-moi fort. » Cela pourrait être un appel au secours désespéré. Du jeune Nick, d’abord. Marqué par la disparition inexpliquée de sa sœur, il est contraint de vivre dans un foyer brisé par l’incertitude et l’absence. Obsédés par leur quête de vérité, ses parents sont sur les traces de l’Origamiste, un tueur en série qui sévit depuis des années en toute impunité. Du lieutenant Adam Gibson, ensuite.

Violent, sensual, and seemingly un-Japanese, the stories in Season of Violence nevertheless depict Japanese teenagers of the present in compulsive but often unconscious revolt against the moral codes of "old Japan." Yet these stories tell of youth who offer no real, modern morality to replace the old—only the anti-morality of indiscriminate sex, brutality, and living for today's pleasures and sensations. These are stories of teenagers who came to be known as Taiyozoku—the Sun Tribe.

Guide forestière en Idaho vivant au cœur de la nature, Emlyn apprend que la personne disparue qui séjournait dans les environs à bord d'un van n'est autre que son ancienne meilleure amie, qu'elle avait cessé de voir en même temps que Taylor, le jeune homme qui lui avait brisé le cœur. Celui-ci refait son apparition et lui demande de l'aider à retrouver la jeune femme dans la forêt.