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Fiction · 1993 · PG-13

Terminal

by Robin Cook

A medical student discovers a cancer cure — but the company behind it will kill to keep it secret

In his new shocker, the master of the medical gothic creates a monstrous cabal - with a chokehold on mankind's dearest hope and darkest fear. From Coma to Blindsight, Robin Cook's unique blend of cutting-edge technology and timeless horror has always enthralled. But rarely have his dramatic gifts been more effectively deployed than in Terminal. Despite a blue-collar background and Irish roots mistrustful of fancy degrees, highly motivated, enormously intelligent Sean Murphy has made it as far as his third year in Harvard's combined Ph.D./M.D. program when he makes a fateful decision to take a

For14+GenreFictionLength436 pagesRead time~11.5 hours

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Violence

A lot

Murder of investigators; confrontations with corporate agents

Language

Some

Moderate profanity

Sexual Content

Barely any

Brief romantic content

Substance Use

Barely any

Moderate alcohol use

Emotional Intensity

Some

Corporate exploitation of terminally ill patients for research

What this book is about

A Robin Cook medical thriller (1993) in which Sean Murphy, a medical student doing a rotation in Miami, discovers that a biotech company has developed a genuine cure for medulloblastoma. But the company is using the patients rather than curing them, and anyone who gets too close to the truth ends up dead. A fast-paced thriller about greed in the medical-industrial complex.

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Murder to suppress medical truth

Patient exploitation

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