Robin Cook: Mindbend (UK 1986)

From the Publisher:
THEIR AIM WAS TO CONTROL THE MEDICAL PROFESSION ABSOLUTELY. BUT FIRST THEY HAD TO WIN THE HEARTS - AND THEN THE MINDS - OF THE DOCTORS...

In dire financial straits, it was a pregnancy neither Adam Schonberg nor his wife Jennifer wanted. But both rejected abortion, so Adam abandoned his medical studies, overcame his scruples, and started work as a salesman with Arolen Pharmaceuticals.

Soon his curiosity was aroused. Why did the computer print-outs on his doctor customers reveal so much personal information? And why did so many of them give up private practice for the mysterious Julian Clinic after returning from one of Arolen's lavish Caribbean cruises? Was there a connection between the unusually high number of abortions performed at the clinic and Arolen's foetal research centre in Puerto Rico?

The alarm bells started ringing when Jennifer's doctor, just back from a cruise, joined the clinic and started prescribing Arolen drugs which he had previously rejected. Now there was much more than morality at stake as Adam's investigations led him on a trail of unimaginable horror and a race against time to save his wife and unborn child - and the soul of medicine - from the obscene evil that was Mindbend...

Robin Cook: Mindbend. Pan Book, ISBN: 0330291653 (April, 1986), 254 p., £2.50.

Robin Cook: Mindbend (USA 1986)

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"A MIND-BOGGLING PAGE-TURNER... ROBIN COOK HAS ANOTHER SURE BESTSELLER!" -- GRAND RAPIDS PRESS
Future doctor Adam Schonberg loved his wife. That was why he took a job with the giant drug firm, Arolen, for the money he needed for their coming baby. His wife, Jennifer, felt she would get the best of care at the Julian Clinic as her pregnancy progressed. It seemed a happy coincidence that the Julian Clinic was owned by Arolen... until Adam Schonberg slowly began to suspect the terrifying truth about this connection... and about the hideous evil perpetrated on the wife he loved by the doctor she helplessly trusted...

MINDBEND

"A SHOCKING, SPELLBINDING THRILLER!" -- WICHITA FALLS TIMES
"SUPERB, SUSPENSE-PACKED... A PAGE-TURNER!" -- THE DETROIT NEWS
"A storyteller of the most daring imagination... chillingly entertaining and thought-provoking!" -- ASSOCIATED PRESS

Robin Cook: Mindbend. New American Library, Signet Book #AE4108, ISBN: 0451141083 (January, 1986), 351 p., $4.95.

Robin Cook: Mindbend (USA 1985)

From the Publisher:
MINDBEND
ROBIN COOK
Utterly chilling. Frighteningly plausible. A classic of medical horror that could come only from Robin Cook.
When young dancer Jennifer Schonberg becomes pregnant by accident, her feelings are mixed -- but her husband, Adam, is far more ambivalent. For Adam, a third-year medical student already in financial straits, the loss of Jennifer's income and the cost of the coming child mean he must drop out of medical school -- on the eve of becoming a doctor.

Against the advice of his teachers, his colleagues, and his wife most of all, Adam takes a job as a salesman for the vastly powerful drug company Arolen Pharmaceuticals, whose influence is known to penetrate deep into the physicians' world. But just how awesome Arolen's control is over the medical profession Adam is yet to discover. It will become all too clear in a series of increasingly terrifying revelations: corruption old as greed itself; bizarre brutality searing as a futuristic vision of hell; the preservation of life turned to a deadly purpose. And awaiting him at the end of his violent odyssey is a confrontation grave beyond imagining, in which the survival of Jennifer's unborn child hangs in the balance as Adam fights to save his family -- and the soul of medicine -- from the overwhelming evil that is Mindbend.

Moving from gleaming hospital corridors that shelter dark secrets to luxurious cruise ships that are not what they seem, from action-packed chases to scenes of spellbinding scientific terror, Mindbend will draw all those who read so much as a page into its web of irresistible suspense -- and hold them fast.

Dr. Robin Cook, a graduate of the Columbia University medical school, finished his postgraduate medical training at Harvard. He has also been a professional diver, and has served as an aquanaut for Sea Lab and as an intern at Jacques Cousteau's oceanographic institute in the south of France. Currently on leave from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, he lives in Florida with his wife, Barbara.

Robin Cook: Mindbend. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399129669 (February, 1985), 368 p., $15.95.