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Book Review of Crisis

Crisis
Crisis
Author: Robin Cook
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Hardcover
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Typical Robin Cook: plasticene prose, stilted dialogue, and a riveting medical mystery. Cook's writing will challenge nearly every vocabulary, causing even a voracious reader and writer like me to run to the dictionary on more than one occasion. I'm also pretty sure that Cook has never had a conversation with an actual person. Real people just don't talk like his characters do. The one saving grace, and the only reason I keep reading Cook's books, is that his plots are always interesting and the themes timely in terms of the issues facing the medical profession. Clearly he knows what he's talking about. The challenge, often, is trying to figure it out.