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Pandemic / Robin Cook.

Pandemic / Robin Cook.
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 Adult Fiction   Bankstown . . On Loan . 29 May 2024
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ISBN 9781509892945 (paperback)
Name Cook, Robin, 1940- author.
Title Pandemic / Robin Cook.
Published London : Macmillan, 2018.
©2018
Description 386 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes "A deadly virus. A global terror."--Cover.
Summary When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and dies upon reaching the hospital, her case is an eerie reminder for veteran medical examiner Jack Stapleton of the 1918 flu pandemic. Fearful of a repeat on the one hundredth anniversary of the nightmarish contagion, Jack autopsies the woman within hours of her demise and discovers some striking anomalies: first, that she has had a heart transplant, and second, that, against all odds, her DNA matches that of the transplanted heart. Although the facts don't add up to influenza, Jack must race against the clock to identify the woman and determine what kind of virus could wreak such havoc a task made more urgent when two other victims succumb to a similar rapid death. But nothing makes sense until his investigation leads him into the fascinating realm of CRISPR/CAS9, a gene editing biotechnology that's captured the imagination of the medical community and the attention of its most unethical members. Drawn into the dark underbelly of the organ transplant market, Jack will come face-to-face with a megalomaniacal businessman willing to risk human lives in order to conquer a lucrative new frontier in medicine and if Jack's not careful, the next life lost might be his own.
Subjects Heart -- Transplantation -- Fiction
Sale of organs, tissues, etc. -- Fiction
Virus diseases -- Fiction
Influenza -- Fiction
Epidemics -- Fiction
Pathologists -- Fiction
Death -- Causes -- Fiction
Genre Medical fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Series Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery 11.
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