4 good links

  1. Robin Cook Club

    Fans review his books

  2. Robin Cook's <i>Shock</i>

    From 2001, a brief chat about his big novel

  3. TWBooks: Robin Cook

    An online bookstore offers cursory reviews of his early novels

  4. Salon: Hamburger Hades

    Jon Carroll's harshly witty review of Cook's 1998 book Toxin

Robin Cook Biography

Robin Cook, a medical doctor, is a founding father of the "medical thriller" genre of popular fiction. His 1977 novel Coma was a sensation (and was turned into a film directed by another author/M.D., Michael Crichton). Cook's many other novels have included Outbreak (1987), Vital Signs (1991), and Toxin (1998). His 1999 novel Vector, the fictional tale of bioterrorists spreading anthrax in New York City, foreshadowed the real-life 2001 anthrax attacks in the U.S.

Extra credit:

Cook is no relation to the former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, who died in 2005.

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