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008 951005t19951995nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 95045375
020 $a0399141065 (acid-free paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm33335188
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040 $aDLC$cDLC$dOrLoB-B
050 00 $aPS3553.O5545$bC66 1995
082 00 $a813/.54$220
100 1 $aCook, Robin,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79117119
245 10 $aContagion /$cRobin Cook.
260 $aNew York :$bG.P. Putnam's Sons,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $a434 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
520 1 $a"After he loses first his midwestern ophthalmology practice to a for-profit medical giant and then his family to a commuter airline tragedy, Dr. John Stapleton's life is transformed to ashes. Feeling less the golden boy than a jaded cynic, Stapleton retrains in forensic pathology and relocates to find an uneasy niche for himself in a city that suits his changed perspective: the cold, indifferent, concrete maze of New York.".
520 8 $a"Stapleton thinks he is past pain and past caring, but as a series of virulent and extremely lethal illnesses - capped by a particularly deadly outbreak of a rare strain of influenzastrikes the young, the old, and the innocent, his suspicions are aroused.
520 8 $aWhen the apparent epicenters of these outbreaks are revealed to be hospitals and clinics controlled by the same for-profit giant that cannibalized his old ophthalmology practice, Stapleton fears he has stumbled upon a diabolic conspiracy of catastrophic proportions: Could the for-profit giant be engaged in the systematic elimination of its more costly subscribers?".
520 8 $a"Getting at the truth leads to Stapleton's unlikely pairing - both professionally and personally - with Terese Hagen, an art director at a hot Madison Avenue advertising firm. Together they discover that the real explanation behind the killer contagious is even more Machiavellian than could be imagined."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCommunicable diseases$vFiction.
655 7 $aMedical novels.$2gsafd
852 00 $boff,glx$hPS3553.O5545$iC66 1995