Mortal Fear

I hand't realized it until I was well into the book that I'd read it before and sure enough, found it on my book shelf. As with every Robin Cook novel I've read, it was entertaining, frightening and compelling.
I found the characters and situations highly believable, and the protagonist a man worth

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emulating. The scene I appreciated the most is when Dr. Alvin Hayes and Carol Donnor escape from a hired killer at a river resort in Oregon. A unique adventure indeed.
What else can I say? Robin Cook is a masterful story weaver.

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This was my first Robin Cook book and I was instantly hooked. The suspense, characters and storytelling just reel you right in. I just couldn't put it down! It's been a while since I've been that absorbed into a book and I absolutely can't wait to read another one!

Mortal Fear very much reminded me of Fatal Cure, they're roughly the same synopsis - corporate health care organisation decides to cut costs by killing expensive patients. The difference between the two however is the stories that get you there, here it's a clinic with a single doctor trying to

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unravel the mystery of a professor suddenly dying on a mystery illness along with scores of previously healthy people dying weeks later. In Fatal Cure it's at a hospital with loads of mystery deaths after elective surgeries and mild admissions.

Is it worth reading if you've already read Fatal Cure? yes if you enjoy his books and the medical genre, otherwise probably not.

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Dr. Jason Howard works for GHP and when his seemingly healthy patients begin to die of massive strokes and aneurysms he starts to lose his confidence and wonders what he's doing wrong in his practice. But when he starts to talk to colleagues and they confide in him that they are having the same

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problems with their own patients Jason begins to wonder if there isn't something on an epidemic level going on. When an eccentric colleague confides in him that he's made a major breakthrough in his research but dies before he can divulge what exactly, Jason is left to put the puzzle pieces together and find out what exactly is killing everyone. Can he find out before it's too late?
Perfectly written and executed story. Yet another great one by Robin Cook. He is definitely the undisputed Master of the Medical Thriller!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book! I will definitely be recommending it.

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