Contagion (Paperback)

"How could someone spread an epidemic so easily? The answer comes at a frenetic pace throughout this thriller by Robin Cook." Birmingham News "The master of the medical thriller." New York Times The emergence of an epidemic in New York City leads a doctor to investigate health insurance plans across the United States. This is the plot of Contagion, a medical thriller by Robin Cook that tells the story of Jack Stapleton, a small-town ophthalmologist whose practice is ruined by a large healthcare conglomerate, AmeriCare. A few years later, in New York, Stapleton begins working as a medical examiner at a major hospital and stumbles upon a diabolical plot: someone is promoting the spread of exotic diseases in the city, spreading rare bacteria and viruses. Threatened by Stapleton's discoveries, city officials and AmeriCare executives do everything they can to keep him away from the investigation. But the doctor insists and ends up getting involved with gangs in Harlem and lower Manhattan, with the police and with Terese Hagen, a workaholic advertising executive who will help him unravel the plot.