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Godplayer

An Immersive and Chilling Thriller from the Master of the Medical Mystery
By Robin Cook
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From Robin Cook, the consummate master of the medical thriller, comes Godplayer, a heart-stopping story of medicine gone mad. The first moment pathology resident Cassandra Cassidy met brilliant cardiac surgeon Thomas Kingsley, she knew they were meant to be together. Forced by a deteriorating eye condition... Read More
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Someone is killing off terminal patients in this terrifying medical thriller from the master of the genre, Robin Cook.

A medical thriller from the master of the genre, Robin Cook.

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From Robin Cook, the consummate master of the medical thriller, comes Godplayer, a heart-stopping story of medicine gone mad.

The first moment pathology resident Cassandra Cassidy met brilliant cardiac surgeon Thomas Kingsley, she knew they were meant to be together. Forced by a deteriorating eye condition to switch from her chosen field to psychiatry, Cassandra needs the support that the charismatic doctor so passionately offers.

But while Thomas continues his meteoric rise, what should have been fairytale happiness begins to disintegrate as the solidity of their marriage begins to crumble. And the dependable security of the hospital world around her seems equally menaced: Cassandra is convinced that someone is killing terminal patients—someone who holds the power of life and death in their hands.

Against her husband's furious objections, Cassandra takes it upon herself to stop the killings even as she fights to save her marriage. Little does she know that her search for the truth will open the floodgates of an unimaginable horror...

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035022007

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 January 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pan Books

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 24.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 230g

Pages: 336

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Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Robin Cook

About the Author

Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word 'medical' to the thriller genre, and decades after the publication of his 1977 breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fiction to produce over thirty international bestsellers, including Outbreak, Terminal, Contagion, Chromosome 6, Foreign Body, Intervention and Cure.

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