Cure (Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery Book 10) by Robin Cook (Epub)

Description

With her young son’s potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laurie Montgomery returns to work at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner. Worried that she still has what it takes, Laurie finds her first case back to be a dangerous puzzler, involving organized crime and two start-up bio-tech companies caught in a zero-sum game.

Satoshi Machita, a former Kyoto University researcher, is set to own a valuable patent controlling pluripotent stem cells destined to spark a trillion-dollar industry of regenerative medicine. When he dies on a crowded New York subway platform, Laurie must decide whether his death was natural – or something fiendish.

Behind the scenes, there are people who would like to see Laurie as far away from the investigation as possible. Despite threats against her, Laurie presses on, until they extend to the person she loves most in the world: her son, JJ. Suddenly Laurie must face solving the crime – and saving her son’s life.

User’s Reviews

From Booklist Cook’s latest thriller opens not with a microscopic medical event, as so many of his previous novels have, but with theft at a research lab in Kyoto, Japan. The perpetrator is Ben Corey, a doctor and the founder of a company designed to profit from stem cell research, and his crime is stealing away Satoshi Machita, one of Kyoto University’s top researchers. But soon after he sneaks Satoshi and his family into the U.S., Satoshi disappears—the target of an attack orchestrated by the Japanese yakuza and the American Mafia. Satoshi’s body turns up at the Office of the County Medical Examiner in New York City, where Laurie Montgomery, just returned from maternity leave, is assigned the case. Though there’s no identification on the body and he appears to have died of natural causes, Laurie digs deeper, much to the consternation of the killers. When Laurie refuses to back off the case, the Mafia threatens the young son she shares with fellow ME Jack Stapleton. The dialogue is clunky and the mobsters dull, but readers invested in Cook’s married ME duo will rapidly turn the pages as danger finds Laurie and Jack once again. –Kristine Huntley –This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ I was a bit disappointed in the unevenness of this book. There was a lot of build-up at the beginning to establish this complex relationship between the Mafia and the Yakuza. Then there was the action-packed section involving the major event and its resolution. And then the end wrapped things up in a few pages. I would have liked to see more of the solution of the Mafia-Yakuza connection play out, just to balance the set-up of the book’s opening. Still, a good, quick read.

⭐ This book takes as subject a possible medical breakthrough, as reported in the May 2010 issue of Scientific American. According to initial findings, it may be possible to grow stem cells (from which replacement organs can be grown) from ordinary adult cells, rather than just from embryo cells. This would free present research from a major hindrance by those who attach religious significance to embryos. Of course, any breakthrough means huge monetary potential in a profit-based health care system.The book opens with an American MD Research startup CEO taking part in a break-in of a Kyoto University Lab. to steal lab books that the University had confiscated from a Japanese researcher, whom had been hired by the American company because he had developed and proven a stem cell process. The problem was that to start his company, the American doctor had to raise money from what turned out to be the New York mafia, allied with the Japanese mafia.From there the story takes many turns, bringing in finally our favorite corpse-cutters, Drs. Laurie and Jack Stapleton (who have become family to this avid Cook reader), and some of the mafia thugs from the book “Critical”. Also appearing in a starring role is Laurie and Jack’s 1½ year old son, who is kidnapped in an attempt to discourage Laurie from finding out that the natural death of the Japanese researcher was actually murder, and a mafia hit.Enter a couple of ex-special forces contractors (“kidnap consultants”), who go to work at whirlwind speed, raiding the mafia boss’s house, and getting the kid back safe, and all is well that ends well.The ending however, is an epilogue that Dr. Cook uses to expound on some of his concerns about how health care is being practiced these days for profit instead of for humanity. While I agree with him, this provides something of anti-climax to an otherwise exciting book – minus one star. Dr. Cook remains still one of my favorite diversions, providing many interesting facts along with the entertainment.

⭐ I have been a fan and reader of Robin Cook for many years but this one is way off the mark. I downloaded it to my Kindle and started reading, anxiously ready to enjoy another good read. Wow, was I disappointed. Too much peripheral stuff and not enough of the usual Robin Cook classics. Unless you like to read about organized crime, my advice is to pass on this one. Don’t waste your money.

⭐ I haven’t read Robin Cook since Coma, and won’t again after this. It’s surprising that an author so prolific who has written for so long could still write with such drudgery and plodding detail. The prose is absolutely plodding, with unnecessarily repeated phrases and explanations and far too many points of view to allow the reader to keep track of the characters. Oddly, even with all those POVs, the characters sound alike; their dialogue all sounds the same, from a Yakuza “psycho” to a Mafia capo to a New York cop to a well-educated medical examiner. Many obvious things are pointed out with painful pedestrian devices and it’s tough to stay interested. I’m about halfway through the book and staying with it only to see if it gets better, which at this point I know it won’t. Only extreme masochism can explain my actions, but perhaps there’s enough literary skill to make me want to find out how it ends. Hence the single star.

⭐ I Thought it would be just another great novel from Robin Cook, I was surprised with this book. It starts out with some thought provoking information then changes to and ending I never excepted. I really loved this one.

⭐ I normally love Robin Cook’s medical thrillers, but this one, so full of Japanese names and words I can’t pronounce and don’t even want to deal with, is so boring so far I can’t even get into it. In fact, I actually skipped almost all of the prologue because it was putting me to sleep, and I just wanted to get to chapter one and Dr. Laura Montgomery.So far I’m barely into the first chapter and keep putting the book down out of boredom. All I care about are the medical aspects of his novels, and this one is a major disappointment so far.Organized crime and turf wars aren’t my thing and in my opinion they ruin this bookHad I borrowed this book from the library rather than having bought the hardcover, I wouldn’t even read any further.I cannot recommend this book.

⭐ A good look in to workings of (CDC), ,Center for Disease Control, how and why it functions. Marrissa, a budding virologist at nthe CDC, exposes herself to extreme danger while searching foir the source of an EBOLA outbreak, one of the deadliest virusis on the planet. This is a thriller that is difficult to put down. One of Robin Cooks best.George Ziff

⭐ For years, I have been a devoted Robin Cook fan. The Jack and Laurie novels have been good reads, up until I got this one. The writing is still good, but not his usual action packed and intelligent style. Laurie and Jack do not communicate much, and Jack seems to be using work to avoid the stress of his home life. The flow of the story is inconsistent and it does not have the author’s usual; sharp and intelligent dialog.

⭐ CURE is one of Robin Cook’s most suspenseful reads. It has everything — the familiar characters fans have come to love, a double-dose of the Mafia (both US and Japanese) and a story-line that grabs the reader and doesn’t let go. It includes a powerful ending with an Amber alert and a case-study of how to successfully end the kidnapping of an infant. Highly recommended. You will not be disappointed.

⭐ Another great book by Robin Cook featuring Laurie and Jack Stapleton. The rapidly developing parts of medicine drive even the best intentioned people to cross the line!

Keywords

Free Download Cure (Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery Book 10) in Epub format
Cure (Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery Book 10) Epub Free Download
Download Cure (Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery Book 10) 2011 Epub Free
Cure (Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery Book 10) 2011 Epub Free Download
Download Cure (Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery Book 10) Epub
Free Download Ebook Cure (Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery Book 10)