Robin Cook: Brain (UK 1982)

From the Publisher:
FROM THE AUTHOR OF COMA COMES A JOURNEY INTO NIGHTMARE, ALONG THE WHITE CORRIDORS OF THE SURGEONS, ALONG THE DANGEROUS STREETS OF THE PORN TRADE, TOWARDS A WORLD OF GLEAMING TERROR WHERE SCIENCE HAS FINALLY CROSSED THE LAST BORDERS OF SANITY...

'Brilliant but brutal surgeons, necrophilious morgue attendants, vanishing patients, corpses minus their brains... an authentic shiver, an eye-popping finale' THE GUARDIAN

Robin Cook: Brain. London: Pan, 1982, ISBN: 0330264273, 234 p., £1.75.

Robin Cook: Brain (USA 1982)

From the Publisher:
MARTIN PHILIPS AND DENISE SANGER WERE DOCTORS, LOVERS -- AND DESPERATELY AFRAID
Both of them suspected that something was wrong -- terribly wrong -- in the great medical research center where they worked. Both of them wondered why a beautiful young woman had died on the operating table and had her brain secretly removed. Both of them found it impossible to explain the rash of female patients exhibiting bizarre mental breakdowns and shocking sexual behavior. Both of them were placing their careers and very lives in deadly jeopardy as they penetrated the eerie inner sanctums of a medical world gone mad with technological power and the lust for more... .

BRAIN

"UNNERVINGLY PLAUSIBLE, DEEPLY FRIGHTENING... THE MEDICAL MILIEU IS RENDERED WITH EXQUISITE ACCURACY!" -- LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A FAST-PACED, GRIPPING THRILLER!" -- PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
A LITERARY GUILD MAIN SELECTION

NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY PUBLISHES SIGNET, MENTOR, CLASSIC, PLUME, MERIDIAN & NAL BOOKS

Robin Cook: Brain. New American Library, Signet #AE1260, ISBN: 0451112601 (January, 1982), $3.95.

Robin Cook: Brain (USA 1981)

From the Publisher:
With Brain, Robin Cook returns to the world of medical horror that he literally created in Coma. Now he has exceeded even his own previous achievement with a thriller of serpentine suspense and truly chilling speculation.

A young girl arrives at Hobson University Medical Center to obtain her medical records and is never seen again... .
Inexplicably, another young woman dies a horrible and agonizing death during brain surgery while under local anesthesia... .
Hidden in a drawer deep in the hospital morgue lies a female cadaver whose organs are intact, but whose brain is missing... .
When Assistant Chief of Neuroradiology Martin Philips and Denise Sanger, the beautiful young resident who is his lover, find themselves thwarted in their research by these bizarre events, their inquiries are dismissed surprisingly lightly by the hospital authorities. And when they persist in their investigation, they are sucked into a maelstrom with a secret that is far more awesome in scope than their wildest paranoid fantasies. It is a secret that will turn Martin Philips into a fugitive, and Denise into the helpless captive of a conspiracy that wants much more from her than her life.

From the dark, demonic terror of Coma, Robin Cook moves into the gleaming nightmare universe of techno-horror and science gone mad.

The result is Brain, a new kind of thriller and natural bestseller, which hundreds of thousands of men and women will be unable to put down.

ROBIN COOK, a surgeon, lives in Boston with his wife, Barbara. He divides his time between medicine and his writing.

Robin Cook: Brain. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399125639 (December, 1980), 283 p., $11.95.