He later became an aquanaut (a submarine doc) with the U.S. Ĭook ran the Cousteau Society's blood-gas lab in the south of France.

He graduated from Wesleyan University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard. He moved to Leonia, New Jersey when he was eight, where he could first have the 'luxury' of having his own room. Early life and career Ĭook was born in Brooklyn, New York City, and grew up in Woodside, Queens. His books have sold nearly 400 million copies worldwide. Several of his books have also been featured in Reader's Digest.

Many of his books have been bestsellers on The New York Times Best Seller List. He is best known for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Robert Brian ' Robin' Cook (born May 4, 1940) is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health. As her investigation takes increasingly bizarre turns, Marissa finds that behind the natural threat lurks a far more sinister possibility: sabotage.īefore she discovers the truth, Marissa must overcome her superiors' fury, her colleagues' doubts and the wrath of a powerful cabal, sworn to achieve its aims, no matter what the cost in human life, including Marissa's.Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D., 1966) The California case is merely the first in a burgeoning series of outbreaks that occur in unrelated geographical areas but with puzzling commonalities: The locations are always health-care facilities, and the victims are only physicians and their patients. Marissa Blumenthal is soon caught up in the ultimate nightmare.

Unless the virus is isolated and checked, mankind may be facing its gravest medical crisis since the Black Death.Īssigned by the CDC to investigate the disease, Dr. When the director of a Los Angeles health maintenance clinic succumbs to an untreatable and virulently contagious virus, killing himself and seven of his patients, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta responds immediately with a state of high alert. In 1995, the book was adapted into a film and released under the title ' Robin Cook's Virus', later renamed Formula for Death, starring Nicollette Sheridan and William Devane. Outbreak is a medical thriller written by Robin Cook and published in 1987 which deals with an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in the United States.ĭespite its name and similar storyline, the book is not related to the 1995 movie also called Outbreak.

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