With time winding down, she and Jack race to connect the dots, and save Laurie's life. As her personal life continues to unravel, the need for answers becomes more urgent, especially when Laurie is pulled into the nightmare as a potential victim herself. Then Laurie is dealt a double blow: While coping with Jack's inability to commit to their relationship, she discovers she carries a genetic marker for a breast-cancer gene. Though it seems impossible to determine why and how the patients are dying, she comes to suspect that not only are the deaths related, they're intentional, suggesting the work of a remarkably clever serial killer with a very unusual motive, involving frightening ties to both developing genomic medicine and the economics of modern-day health care. Last seen in Vector, the doctors confront a series of puzzling hospital deaths of young, healthy people after successful routine surgery.ĭespite institutional resistance from her superiors, as well as from those at Manhattan General, Laurie doggedly pursues the investigation.

Jack Stapleton are back, in Robin Cook's electrifying 25th novel.

Within 24 hours of his surgery, he dies.Ī 36-year-old mother, Darlene Morgan, has knee surgery to repair a torn ligament in her knee. Twenty-eight-year-old Sean McGillin is the picture of health, until he fractures his leg while in-line skating in New York City's Central Park.

Blindsight by robin cook