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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-100451159535
ISBN-139780451159533
eBay Product ID (ePID)610680
Product Key Features
Book TitleComa
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1977
TopicGeneral, Mystery & Detective / General
GenreFiction
AuthorRobin Cook
FormatMass Market
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight5.6 Oz
Item Length6.9 in
Item Width4.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition18
Dewey Decimal823/.9/1
SynopsisRobin Cook is the author -- and Coma is the book -- for which the term "medical thriller" was first used. It's a spine-chilling shocker about a crime beyond imagining and the committed young medical student who brings it to light. The surgery was routine -- the kind performed many times a day at Boston's most prestigious hospital. The teams that worked in OR;t make up for what was happening around them. Several patients, admitted to the hospital for minor surgery, never awoke. For some inexplicable reason, their brains had been destroyed