Terminal

Robin Cook's medical thriller TERMINAL was so amazing, that it is hard to put into words. His use of medical knowledge really shows through in this novel and many of his others. When I first picked up this book I was expecting it to be interesting but a slow read, and I was not expecting to understand it at all. Let's just say that I have never been more wrong in my entire life. This book was exciting right from the beginning, and maintained that status the entire novel, from chapter one to the very last page. Even the afterward was thrilling. I was also wrong about it being a slow read, in reality I read this book faster than I have read any other book, ever, it took me an exciting two days to finish this amazing novel. I was wrong about it being boring and slow but the thing I was most incorrect about was that I would not be able to understand it. I have never been so wrong in my entire life. From start to finish there was not one thing that went unexplained or was unclear. The medical terminology was a mouth full but every term and every sickness was explained so that the reader could understand it, whether you are a world class neurosurgeon, a realtor, or a fourteen year old girl, you would not be confused while reading this or any of his other novels. In the medical thriller TERMINAL a man named Shawn Green is a medical student who is interested in a type of brain cancer called meduloblastoma. Because of his interest he takes an elective at a cancer hospital in Miami Florida, where one of his patients from boston has been transferred to. He never expected that this hospital had a murderer on its staff or that it might be creating the cancer and injecting it into patients and then treating them. While calling there treatment A miracle cure for the deadly disease. Maybe that is why all the patients who have developed this illness just had a minor surgery. Also happen to be filthy rich because they are CEO's of companies. Or because they are immediate family members of those who are. Shawn and his girlfriend Janet, who is a nurse at the hospital, begin piecing all the evidence together and have the case about solved but then the murderer tries to kill Janet. This is tragic, but she does not die, and it brings them even closer to solving the mystery. They are snooping around the hospital when they find the head doctors travel records and they discover that she was in every hospital when all of the cancer patients had there minor surgery before they contracted meduloblastoma. The case is solved but to find out the end and all the invigorating details check out Robin Cooks's medical thriller TERMINAL. This book is especially good if you are looking for suspense, and intellect, as opposed to the normal mystery of nothing all the way through and finally something. You will not be bored for an instant with this novel. I definitely recommend that you read Robin Cook's TERMINAL.

I am forever wary of medical thrillers because of all the medical terms I cannot comprehend and the book offers no explanation, as if the normal grieving family has a background in medicine and knows what a subdermal hemmorage is. But Robin Cook surprises me in no way other medical thrillers have. His plot is simple, the characters are interesting, and the humor is amazing. I have a clear understanding of Sean Murphy and the situation he is in. I know he is a medical student and not a comedian. The fact that everyone else is serious and he has a sense of humor makes him stand out and you can clearly see he is the main character and not one that fades into the background.

I loved this book! I read it a few years ago, and ever since than I've read all the other Robin Cook books. This book really made you think about the possibility of this actually happening.

I think something is missing from this book. I LOVE Robin Cook book's, but, I the suspense I felt in Fatal Cure or Outbreak wasn't in this book. Although better than Invasion, this book wasn't exactly realistic, although the thought of doctors give brain cancer on purpose was alarming to say the least...

This is the first Robin Cook novel I have ever read and it certainly will not be the last one. Sean Murphy is an up-and-coming med student who just gets offered a two month internship at the Forbes Cancer Center in Miami. Janet Reardon, his girlfriend and a nurse at the same hospital as him, follows him down from Boston and here we go! Something is fishy at the Center because he's not allowed to work on a rare type of cancer, and she's not allowed to properly take care of the cancer patients. How come this is the only center that successfully treats the cancer, and how come it only happens to rich people who were in the hospital before? As they try to unravel the gruesome truth, Sean and Janet are engaged in a race against time and for their lives...meanwhile, run to get this book and don't go to the hospital!