Foreign Body
by Robin Cook
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Author: Robin CookEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-07-28
ISBN: 0425228959
Number of pages: 528
Publisher: Berkley
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Book Review: A disappointment from Robin Cook
Summary: 3 Stars
I am so sorry to review a Robin Cook medical thriller and give only three stars, but, alas, I must. "Foreign Body" simply does not match--nor come anywhere close--to the intensity of other Cook books I've read. I'm not even sure what the title means.
"Foreign Body" is set in India, a place Cook has obviously visited, as evidenced by precise details of description of locales and even people, notably the keepers of dead bodies in and around the crematoriums.
There really is not much medical thriller here. Unlike the pace and tone of other Cook novels, this one did not have me on the edge, trying to help the characters through. In only one setting did I shiver--just a tad--for one of the main characters. Yet Cook could not make the sacrifice of his character to help this limping plot along (as Stephen King does in that horror of horrors, the death of the child in "Pet Sematary"). The character in this particular situation does live to tell her story. Perhaps his point was that Indian hooligans cannot kill their victims. That was my conclusion.
So, the gist? Jennifer's grandmother dies after an operation in India, noted for its inexpensive surgeries. A growing tourist attraction to India is the operating table. When another patient inexplicably dies after surgery, Jennifer begins to wonder what is going on. A third victim convinces her. She calls her friend Laurie, a medical examiner (a higher level of coroner) to come to India and do an autopsy. And Laurie agrees! Wow, what a friend! She convinces her ME husband to come along. And bring their equipment necessary for monitoring Laurie's impending fertility cycle so as to help it along. A diversionary subplot to brace the weak main plot. Hmmmm, Mr. Cook.
I guess the amazing thing on my part is that I read this thick novel all the way to the end. Meanwhile, my friends are reading books of substance, Nobel winners, standard classics. When I started Foreign Body (oh yeah, the title--has to be that the bodies of these Americans are "foreign" because they died in India--see what I mean?), I needed something to take away my mind from the stress at work. Yes, I worded that the way I wanted.
To be fair to Robin Cook, let me recommend two of his page-turners: Chromosome 6 and Brain. Now these are excellent medical thrillers with the writer at his best!
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