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Robin Cook
Toxin
Title: Toxin
Author: Robin Cook
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Pages: 357
Publisher: , 0
ISBN: 0399143165
Format: PDF / Kindle / ePub
Size: 5.9 MB
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Description
A gripping novel of bacterial poisoning and corporate malevolence, from the dean of medical
thrillers.
Dr. Kim Reggis, one of the country's top cardiac surgeons, finds himself ill equipped to deal with
a medical catastrophe involving his own daughter, Becky. Newly divorced, Kim takes Becky to
her favourite fast-food restaurant on a special night out. The quintessential American meal of
burgers and fries leads to tragedy. Over the following week Becky becomes gravely ill from E.
coli bacterial poisoning.
Beginning with the initial emergency room visit, Kim is driven to distraction by the realities of
current medicine. Already beaten down by the indignities of a major hospital merger and the
subsequent loss of his departmental chairmanship, Kim collides head-on with cost-cutting rules
that restrict his daughter's treatment. As Becky's condition worsens, the surgeon is driven over
the edge by his inability to alter the inexorable progression. When the administration revokes his
hospital privileges, Kim is forced out into the cold.
Half crazed by grief, Kim launches himself on an inquiry to learn how and why his daughter got
sick. The trail of deadly evidence of shoddy meat-industry practices and complicity stretches
from the slaughterhouse to the industry hierachy to the USDA. Aided in his quest by his ex-wife,
Tracy, and a young, idealistic USDA inspector, Kim ultimately learns the shocking truth - but the
price may be his life and the lives of those he loves.
With trademark pulse-pounding flair, Robin Cook delivers a cutting-edge thriller, borrowing from
today's fears and tomorrow's headlines. Toxin is roller-coaster entertainment.
Insightful reviews
Kristina: I give it only one star because it felt more like it was for information first and the story
line was an after thought. It makes you look twice about burgers but I see no point in stop eating
ground meat because there is so much that can kill you. If a burger will make you happy to eat
you might as well eat it. I just reread the the description of the book and wonder if I read the
same thing because it doesn't seem to be explaining the same book I read because makes it
sound alot more exciting with more meat to it than there really is. Plus in the book it was a
daughter and not a son. But the book I read was nothing like that but yet had same title and
author. Some one must be getting their information wrong here. Maybe the author has the good
version of the book hidden away.
Paul Talbot: Wow, possibly the worst thriller I've ever read... We start with an utterly unlikeable
"hero", who puts his daughter into harm's way then fails to comprehend what's happening until
it's too late. His ego manages to stop him noticing anything that's happening until the daughter's
at death's door. He then flies completely off the rails, attacking several people and acting like a
lunatic until he finally realises the obvious truth (some people in the food industry are
unscrupulous, dur). He then makes a half-assed attempt at rectifying the problem. I won't give
away the ending, but he causes at least one needless death.
I had to keep reading this, as I wasn't sure how such an experienced novelist could get so much
wrong - bad characters, actions that come out of nowhere and "revelations" that seem
transparently obvious.
Kim Tarry Tamayo: The subject of this book was so shocking and disgusting! I couldn't believe
that things like that could really happen and it's scary to think about. There's so much going on
behind closed doors that people just believe are being taken care of in the safety and health of
the public but in reality none of us know that. This book definitely paints a very clear picture of
the potential risks of eating meat and how easy it is to slip up and get sick from something very
serious.
Diane: I learn this e-book a long time in the past after borrowing it from my grandmother's
library. It didn't make me a vegetarian however it certainly has made me extra conscientious
concerning the meat I consume. To this day, I refuse to consume a lot hamburger or flooring
meat. i've got formally reread it and that i now have the frightening renewal to stick clear of all
hamburger or flooring meat. the tale is harrowing in addition to thoroughly possible. Hell, it really
is already happened. the phobia of E. coli and its results is an ever-impending, dismaying idea
that plagues the United States. In fresh years, E. coli and its many models has not just affected
meats yet different assets as well, making a lot of persons super sick with rather few signs till it's
a full-blown disaster. The ebook focuses round a fictitious, yet unfortunately lifelike case of a
very lethal strand of E. coli discovering its method into the daughter of Dr. Kim Reggis. A
vendetta activity starts with stomach-churning results. nice drama, a superb move to the tale
and sickeningly true.My purely dislikes for this publication is the language within which the
members speak, because it turns out forcibly contrived and much too heavy. I additionally
dislike the substitute connection Tracy and Kim ultimately rediscover. i believe it should were a
extra applicable finishing if it had now not dipped ever-so-slightly into the romantic genre.
regardless of those small issues, the publication has a special, albeit unlucky position in my
heart.
Ayan Ganguli: received it as a simple learn on my long ago from Mussoorie. The e-book
performed out precisely as I pictured - non advanced plot lines, loopy contrived personality
mapping and an entire bunch of clinical terminologies that may get you scampering off to the
net - in order that you do not consider like an fool no longer understanding what localized
hematoma or hemorrhaging particularly means. yet for all its drawbacks and openly handy plot
shifts, i will be darned for those who can truly go away this publication halfway. the nearest
parallel i'll draw which can (potentially) transpose my feelings in the direction of the book, will be
to check it to a (rhetorical but possible) hollywood B grade movie. You know.. anything like
Sharknado maybe. Yes, Mr cook dinner does burst off the tangent a piece and yes, there are
components the place rants overpower the tale - however the frantic velocity and "this might
good happen, you know" eventualities painted may still continue you until eventually the end.
Leandro Taylor: Protagonista irritante, personalidad explosiva y poco determinante. Es hasta
auto-destructivo en un punto, quizá por l. a. impotencia de ser cirujano cardiovascular y no
contar con su equipo médico y equipamiento por una medida económica de los angeles
empresa para tratar el central conflicto de l. a. trama.Muchos personajes irrelevantes con una
historia que al igual que este libro podrían haber sido gratamente explotados para mejorar esta
historia y alargar los angeles trama por un mínimo de four hundred páginas más sin que sea
una lectura pesada, puesto que el nudo valuable de el libro es un núcleo latente de fabric que
aún con el paso de los años es inagotable.En cambio, decidieron concentrar l. a. historia en el
protagonista, sus arranques de ira y falta de regulate sobre sí mismo, dañando a su entorno y
no aportando nada a los angeles suggestion critical que lleva el hilo.A mitad de libro, las
acciones del protagonista fueron más allá y se desvió tanto de el nudo important que se
convirtió casi en una novela policial de baja calaña, rozando el cliché del género suspenso,
aportando poco y nada, dando los angeles sensación de que el relleno period necesario porque
l. a. editorial requería que el libro tenga un mínimo de 2 hundred páginas or so. Podrían haber
desarrollado, como dije previamente, las historias de algunos personajes secundarios, puesto
que el planteo que hicieron al momento de presentarlos casi te invitaba a esperar el desarrollo
del mismo.
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