Vector (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery series Book 4)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (993 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004IATD7E |
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| Number of Pages | : | 206 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Vector I like Robin Cook. Enjoy reading his stories. Really makes you think. Fast paced.Like the series with the pathologist Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery.. Moosie said A favorite Robin Cook for Me!. I was always a fan of Robin Cook. Vector is one of my favorite.. "Bumbling Losers Lose!" according to Donald Mitchell. Most writers set up the villains as pretty challenging characters (such as occurs in the James Bond novels). Robin Cook has pulled a reverse of that and put together some of the most incompetent villains ever. Despite their incompetence, they make great progress towards unleashing a bioweapon on Manhattan. This reversal added a comic element (not too far from the Keystone Kops) that made the novel much more entertaining t
Jack Stapleton and Dr. Laurie Montgomery (both last seen in Chromosome 6) begin to witness some unusual cases in their capacity as forensic pathologists in the city's medical examiner's office: a young, healthy black woman dies of respiratory failure, a Greek immigrant succumbs to a sudden, overwhelming pneumonia. Vector is all-too-plausible fiction at its terrifying best.. With signature skill, Robin Cook has crafted a page-turning thriller rooted in up-to-the-minute biotechnology. A former technician in the Soviet biological weapons system, Biopreparat, Yuri possesses the knowledge to wreak havoc in his new home. When an unexpected breakthrough persuades Jack that these seemingly unrelated deaths are really connected murders, his colleagues and superiors are skeptical. New York City cab driver Yuri Davydov is a disgruntled Russian emigre poised to lash out at the adoptive nation he believes has denied him the American Dream. At the same time, the pair are pressured from above to focus on a high-profile string of suspicious deaths of prisoners in police custody. Dr. But before he executes his planned piece de resistance of vengeance, he experiments first on his suspicious live-in girlfriend, then on a few poor-tipping fares. But the question soon becomes whether the pair will solve the puzzle before Yuri unleashes into the streets of New York the ulti
But if you want deep characters and sensitive description, read Fay Weldon. Robin Cook's latest plot--the threat of an anthrax bacterium turned loose in a New York government building and in Central Park--is ripped straight from the headlines, and as such it may be charitably described as having a certain lumpish quality in the prose and an overabundance of cuteness in the lead characters. Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery, the dueling forensic pathologists who bounced off each other in Cook's Chromosome 6, collide and combine once again as a mad Russian cabdriver, who used to work in a Moscow bioweapons factory, comes up with a plan to punish America for not welcoming him with open arms. --Dick Adler. The cabby forms an unlikely alliance with two firemen who happen to be white supremacists; they fund his anthrax research to further their own lunatic schemes. Cook is, as ever, best at creating scenes of per