Robin Cook: Outbreak (UK 2014)

From the Publisher:
Outbreak is Robin Cook at his hair-raising best. Blending a premise of consummate public concern with a galvanizingly suspenseful plot, he has perhaps created his signature work.

When the director of a Los Angeles health maintenance clinic succumbs, along with seven patients, to an untreatable - and virulently contagious -virus, Atlanta's Center for Disease Control goes on red alert. Unless the virus is isolated and checked, mankind may be facing its gravest medical crisis since the Black Death.

Assigned by the CDC to investigate the disease, Dr. Melissa Blumenthal is soon caught up in the ultimate nightmare. The California case is merely the first in a burgeoning series of outbreaks that occur in unrelated geographical areas but with puzzling commonalities: The locations are always health-care facilities, and the victims are only physicians and their patients.

As her investigation takes increasingly bizarre turns, Melissa finds that behind the natural threat lurks a far more sinister possibility: sabotage.

Before she discovers the truth, Melissa must overcome her superiors' fury, her colleagues' doubts - and the wrath of a powerful cabal, sworn to achieve its aims, no matter what the cost in human life - including Melissa's.

Brilliantly imagined, fiendishly compelling, Outbreak is superb Robin Cook - the kind of speculative chiller that will reverberate in the reader's awareness long after the final page is turned.

Robin Cook: Outbreak. Bello / Macmillan, ISBN: 9781447246763 (September, 2014), eBook, 403 KB (ca. 368 p.), £3.99 (?).

Robin Cook: Outbreak (UK 2006)

From the Publisher:
'Master of the medical thriller' -- NEW YORK TIMES
A mysterious and deadly outbreak - beginning in Los Angeles and spreading across the United States. From a virus with no known cure...

At Atlanta's renowned Center for Disease Control, newly qualified specialist Marissa Blumenthal is the first to notice a bizarre similarity among the victims.

But even evidence is fatal, as she begins to unmask a sinister organization dedicated to achieving humankind's most horrific goal...

Robin Cook: Outbreak. Disease is their weapon... London: Pan Boks, 2006, ISBN: 0330302078, 368 p., £6.99.

Robin Cook: Outbreak (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
"HIS MOST HARROWING MEDICAL HORROR STORY." NEW YORK TIMES
The phenomenal bestselling author of Coma, Fever and Mindbend presents the ultimate medical thriller. Murder and mystery reach epidemic proportions when a devastating plague sweeps the country, killing all in its path. Dr. Marissa Blumenthal of the Atlanta Center for Disease Control investigates-and soon uncovers the medical world's deadliest secret. Disturbing, compelling and shockingly real- OUTBREAK is Robin Cook at his heart-stopping best...

"THE ULTIMATE NIGHTMARE... SPINE-TINGLING INTRIGUE AND FEVER-PITCHED ACTION!" - ASSOCIATED PRESS

Robin Cook: Outbreak. Berkley Special Sales Edition, NO ISBN (April, 1994), 352 p., $5.99.

Robin Cook: Outbreak (USA 1988)

From the Publisher:
"HIS MOST HARROWING MEDICAL HORROR STORY." -- NEW YORK TIMES
The phenomenal bestselling author of Coma, Fever and Mindbend presents the ultimate medical thriller. Murder and mystery reach epidemic proportions when a devastating plague sweeps the country, killing all in its path. Dr. Marissa Blumenthal of the Atlanta Center for Disease Control investigates -- and soon uncovers the medical world's deadliest secret. Disturbing, compelling and shockingly real -- OUTBREAK is Robin Cook at his heart-stopping best...

"HORRIFYING, TIMELY, UNSETTLING... COOK IS A MASTER." -- CHARLESTON EVENING POST
"FASCINATING... HIS MOST ENJOYABLE NOVEL IN YEARS." -- KIRKUS
"FAST-MOVING... A CHILLING, EVEN TERRIFYING NOVEL." -- CHATTANOOGA NEWS-FREE PRESS

A SELECTION OF THE LITERARY GUILD

Robin Cook: Outbreak. Berkley Books, ISBN: 042510687X (February, 1988), 352 p., $4.95.

Robin Cook: Outbreak (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
His most harrowing, most timely novel of medical horror since Coma.
Outbreak is Robin Cook at his hair-raising best. Blending a premise of consummate public concern with a galvanizingly suspenseful plot, he has perhaps created his signature work.

When the director of a Los Angeles health maintenance clinic succumbs, along with seven patients, to an untreatable -- and virulently contagious -- virus, Atlanta's Center for Disease Control goes on red alert. Unless the virus is isolated and checked, mankind may be facing its gravest medical crisis since the Black Death.

Assigned by the CDC to investigate the disease, Dr. Melissa Blumenthal is soon caught up in the ultimate nightmare. The California case is merely the first in a burgeoning series of outbreaks that occur in unrelated geographical areas but with puzzling commonalities: The locations are always health-care facilities, and the victims are only physicians and their patients.

As her investigation takes increasingly bizarre turns, Melissa finds that behind the natural threat lurks a far more sinister possibility: sabotage.

Before she discovers the truth, Melissa must overcome her superiors' fury, her colleagues' doubts -- and the wrath of a powerful cabal, sworn to achieve its aims, no matter what the cost in human life -- including Melissa's.

Brilliantly imagined, fiendishly compelling, Outbreak is superb Robin Cook -- the kind of speculative chiller that will reverberate in the reader's awareness long after the final page is turned.

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. Dr. Cook is currently on leave from the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.

Robin Cook: Outbreak. Putnam's , ISBN: 0399131876 (January, 1987), 366 p., $17.95.