Intervention (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery series Book 9) by Robin Cook (Epub)

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Bestselling author Robin Cook returns with another ripped-from-the- headlines thriller, as New York City medical detective Jack Stapleton investigates the promises-and deadly risks-of alternative medicine and is led deep into the heart of a religious conspiracy…

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From Publishers Weekly In this uneven medical thriller from bestseller Cook (Foreign Body), Dr. Jack Stapleton, a New York City forensic pathologist who lost his first wife and their two children in a plane crash, is devastated when his newborn son by his second wife is diagnosed with high-risk neuroblastoma. As a diversion from his efforts to find a cure for his son, Stapleton seeks to expose unscrupulous practitioners of alternative medicine. In particular, he investigates the death of a healthy woman whose vertebral arteries were damaged by a chiropractor. Then the plot swerves into Da Vinci Code territory as two of Stapleton’s college friends—the archbishop of New York and an archeologist—battle over skeletal remains that may be those of the Virgin Mary. When the characters themselves comment on the events as something out of a horror movie or a book, suspension of disbelief becomes even more of a challenge (e.g., He felt like he was a participant in a kind of unfolding real-life mystery-thriller). (Aug.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. From AudioFile Facing the decline of his baby son, who was born with a life-threatening disease, New York City forensic pathologist Jack Stapleton tries to distract himself by exposing the follies of alternative medicine and the Roman Catholic faith. George Guidall’s capable narration provides much-needed consistency for a tangle of mostly disconnected story lines. Guidall is gifted at voicing older men who are experiencing life challenges, and this thriller is centered around three: a declining archaeologist who is desperate to restore his fading career, a power-hungry archbishop who is frantic to conceal his involvement in the removal of ancient skeletal remains from St. Peter’s tomb in Rome, and Stapleton, who brings them together. Guidall reveals the fear and self-doubt hiding behind Stapleton’s renegade campaigns to uncover his version of the truth. N.M.C. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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⭐ I thought I bought a good Cook. Medical mystery. Instead I ended up quickly turning page after page of biblical history I finally gave up. I had already been getter no fed up with the saga of egotistical Jack and Long suffering Laura. This was it. Jack gets the prizes for worst husband and worst father in the world. May I say narcissist? No fun to read about a hero who is really a self involved egomaniac. I am through with Cook.

⭐ Anybody who enjoys reading biblical history combined with biblical mystery will love this book. Jack Staplelton finds himself enlisted by an old college buddy to assist in researching the contents of an ancient osowary (an ancient burial jar), secreted out of St. Peters cathedral at the Vatican in Rome. The contents of the burial jar could rattle the rafters of christianity. A third college buddy who happens to be the Cardinal Arch Bishop of New York is drawn into this mystery and attempts to stifle the investigation of the ancient burial jar. Jacks involvment is complicated by having to deal with his new born son, JJ, who has a potentially deadly cancer. This book is a real thriller with a wholly unpredictable ending.

⭐ This interested me from the first page as both a medical professional and a Catholic. It’s a bit far fetched yet believable. The characters are engaging. All in all, a very good read.

⭐ As usual, Cook’s Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery are presented with a number of interesting challenges which they manage to overcome.The origin of the challenges is a little different than usual in that the main focus is not the usual medical one.The only criticism is that the climax to the story was foreseeable and somewhat formulaic.Regardless, I would still recommend this book to others.

⭐ Each book in this series has something for me to learn and this one didn’t disappoint! Not a formulaic series at all! Each one a page-turner!

⭐ This was almost a good book! Three seperate stories that eventually the author managed to tie together. For the first 95% the book was a real good read than it was like the author had contracted for an X number of pages. The ending was a complete de-spoiler. Cook literally threw the book away and in my mind took “The cowards way out”. I was looking forward to sharing this book with a friend but after the terrible ending I could no longer justify that. I did the same thing with the book as Robin Cook had, I threw it out! Mr. Cook I feel as though you robbed me and it will be a long time, if ever, that I read another of your books.

⭐ A little different from Cook’s other books but, nonetheless just as good. It was difficult to foresee where this book was heading and how it would have a successful outcome, but it did!

⭐ I enjoy Robin Cook’s novels. I have read them all.

⭐ As will all Robin Cook medical thrillers, entertaining, annoying and annoyingly cliche women characters, and enjoyable sci fi that you can (mostly) suspend belief) even if you’re in the medical field.

⭐ Both as the author of Past Aghast and a physician, I didn’t find the storyline untenable at all. It may not be Cook at his best but he does manage to weave a reasonable story, blending the potentially disparate territories of medicine and religion. I found the story plausible and unpredictable enough as to actually create some suspense. I don’t consider alternative medicine “dubious” in the least but, this is a work of fiction and, though the relation between alternative medicine and ancient religion may be a stretch, it is pulled together into a readable story. I liked the characters and enjoyed the story.

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