Robin Cook: Harmful Intent

From the Publisher:
"FRIGHTENING... COOK HAS WRITTEN YET ANOTHER BLOCKBUSTER MEDICAL CHILLER!" -- HOUSTON CHRONICLE
It should have been a routine childbirth. But somehow, the mother died in delivery, the baby was born brain-damaged, and Jeffrey Rhodes, the anesthesiologist, is running for his life. Charged with malpractice, he is found guilty of harmful intent and reckless disregard for human life. To clear his name, Rhodes must follow a fugitive trail into the heart of a medical nightmare. A trail that, for some, may end in suicide -- and for others, in the most shocking conspiracy of our time...

"CRISP AND EXCITING... NONSTOP ACTION!" -- KIRKUS
"A TRULY EXCITING MEDICAL DETECTIVE STORY." -- ASSOCIATED PRESS
"PAGE-TURNING!" -- Larry King, USA TODAY

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Robin Cook: Harmful Intent. Berkley Books, ISBN: 0425125467 (February, 1991), 351 p., $5.95.

Robin Cook: Harmful Intent (UK 1990)

From the Publisher:
A ROUTINE SPINAL INJECTION DURING A NORMAL BIRTH - AND THEN THE NIGHTMARE STRUCK...
Before the doctor's unbelieving eyes, a young, healthy woman suffers inexplicable seizures - and dies. Her child survives but is brain damaged and severely disabled. And the living nightmare begins for Dr Jeffrey Rhodes...

Sued to the tune of 11 million dollars, his career ruined, Jeffrey suffers the final cruel blow of conviction and prison. If he is ever to face his future with confidence again he must discover what really caused that fatal error in the operating room.

A fugitive, desperately stalking the hospital he once proudly served, Jeffrey stumbles upon a plot more shocking than he ever suspected... and a crazed killer whose harmful intent is greedy for more than one life...

Robin Cook: Harmful Intent. London: Pan, 1990, ISBN: 0330316192, 400 p., £3.99.

Robin Cook: Harmful Intent (USA 1990)

From the Publisher:
A physician turned fugitive must save himself and stop a lethal drug-tampering plot in Robin Cook's most disturbing techno-chiller yet.

Anesthesiologist Dr. Jeffrey Rhodes's nightmare begins with nerve-shattering swiftness, but it will haunt him always: he administers routine anesthesia during a normal birth. Suddenly the young, healthy mother goes into inexplicable seizures and dies; her infant survives but is severely disabled and brain damaged. But the living nightmare is only beginning: sued first for malpractice, then brought up on criminal charges, Jeffrey is convicted of malpractice -- to the tune of $11 million -- then of harmful intent and reckless disregard for human life... second-degree murder carrying a mandatory prison term.

A ruined man, Jeffrey must pull himself from the depths of despair to try to salvage the wreckage of his life. A subtle clue puts him and Nurse Kelly Everson on the trail of a crazed killer. With Kelly's aid, Jeffrey remains in hiding in order to find the truth and gain the evidence he needs to prevent more "malpractice" deaths and to clear his name. But that truth is even more shocking than Jeffrey imagined. For there is a third dimension to the whole affair that neither he nor Kelly could have anticipated...

Combining state-of-the-art medical technology, complex moral and social issues, and a plot of timeless terror, Harmful Intent again confirms Robin Cook as a consummate artist of suspense.

Dr. Robin Cook, a graduate of the Columbia University medical school, finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard. He is currently on leave from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. He lives and writes in Florida.

Robin Cook: Harmful Intent. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399134816 (January, 1990), 400 p., $18.95.