My best friend introduced me to Robin Cook in sixth grade, and we both loved his medical thrillers. I found some of his books recently for super cheap (a quarter each!) at a rummage sale, and couldn’t resist grabbing them all. I sent her a snap of Abduction when I started it, and she warned me that it doesn’t hold up well — but I’m pretty sure I never read it the first time around (it came out in ’02, and I’d moved on from Cook […]
Robin Cook is an old white dude — how did I never realize this??
My very best friend in the whole world & I bonded over books the first semester of sixth grade. I introduced her to Stephen King and Dean Koontz, and she introduced me to the medical thriller genre — Michael Crichton, Michael Palmer, and of course, Robin Cook (we also read a lot of Lillian Jackson Braun. we were–are–huge dorks). I can still picture the covers of Cook’s books clearly: Vector, Fever, Outbreak, Coma, and our favorite, Mutation (which Cat dropped in the pool so it swelled to three times […]