Robin Cook: Chromosome 6 (USA 1998)

From the Publisher:
"MASTER OF THE MEDICAL THRILLER!" -- The New York Times
In his most prophetic thriller yet, Robin Cook challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulation and cloning. In the jungles of equatorial Africa, a biotechnology giant has taken transplant surgery and animal research to a new level. Where one mistake could bridge the evolutionary gap between man and ape -- and forever change the genetic map of our existence...

"State-of-the-art genetic manipulation, revolutionary organ transplants, even a veiled hint of cloning -- suspense master Robin Cook, ever on the edge of medical adventure, is at it again, only a step ahead of the fast-moving marvels of the real-life laboratory... compulsively readable."-- Anniston Star

DR. ROBIN COOK, a graduate of Columbia University Medical School, finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard. He is the author of Contagion, Acceptable Risk, and numerous other bestselling novels.

Robin Cook: Chromosome 6. Berkley Books, ISBN: 0425161242 (April, 1998), 480 p., $7.50.

Robin Cook: Chromosome 6 (UK 1997)

From the Publisher:
The harrowing new bestseller from the master of medical thrillers.
When notorious underworld figure Carlo Franconi is gunned down, his Mafioso competitors become prime suspects. Suspicions are fuelled when Franconi's body disappears from the city morgue before it can be autopsied - much to the embarrassment of the chief medical examiner and the mayor, but to the amusement of forensic pathologist Dr Jack Stapleton.

A few days later, when the mutilated, unidentifiable body of a 'floater' arrives on the autopsy table, Jack too becomes troubled by the case. While unidentified bodies routinely make their way to the medical examiner's office, what piques his curiosity is not so much this body's missing head, hands, and feet, but its missing liver.

Aided by his colleague Dr Laurie Montgomery, Jack identifies the corpse as the missing Franconi, but this positive identification in no way solves the mystery. Who killed Carlo Franconi? And was the triggerman also responsible for the theft of Franconi's body and its eventual mutilation? Jack and Laurie's search for the truth leads them to the steamy jungles of equatorial Africa, where they discover a sinister cabal whose stock-in-trade involves surgical procedures a step beyond the latest in current technology... and a leap beyond accepted medical ethics.

Robin Cook: Chromosome 6. Macmillan, ISBN: 0333682629 (June, 1997), 461 p., Hardcover £16.99, Trade £9.99.

Robin Cook: Chromosome 6 (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
The harrowing new bestseller from the master of medical thrillers, written with the bold strokes of reality that are Robin Cook's trademarks.

When notorious underworld figure Carlo Franconi is gunned down, his Mafioso competitors become prime suspects. Suspicions are fueled when Franconi's body disappears from the city morgue before it can be autopsied -- much to the embarrassment of the chief medical examiner and the mayor, but to the amusement of the morgue's resident cynic, forensic pathologist Dr. Jack Stapleton.

A few days later, when the mutilated, unidentifiable body of a "floater" arrives on the autopsy table, Jack is troubled by the case. While unidentified bodies routinely make their way to the medical examiner's office, what piques Jack's curiosity is not so much this body's missing head, hands, and feet, but its missing liver.

Aided by his colleague Dr. Laurie Montgomery, Jack identifies the corpse as the missing Franconi, but this positive identification in no way solves the mystery. Who killed Carlo Franconi? And was the triggerman responsible for the theft of Franconi's body and its eventual mutilation? Jack and Laurie's search for the truth leads them to the steamy jungles of equatorial Africa, where they discover a sinister cabal whose stock-in-trade involves surgical procedures a step beyond the latest current technology -- and a Promethean leap beyond accepted medical ethics.

With Robin Cook's signature cutting-edge suspense, Chromosome 6 combines the fast action of a nerve-jangling thriller with the medical possibilities of the all-too-near future.

Bestselling novelist Dr. Robin Cook is currently on leave from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. In the past two years, four of his novels have been produced as highly successful movies for television, and three more are in production for NBC. He lives and works in Florida.

Robin Cook: Chromosome 6. Putnam's, ISBN: 039914207X (March, 1997), 461 p., $24.95.