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. 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 influenza - strikes the young, the old, and the innocent, his suspicions are aroused.

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When 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? 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 contagions is even more Machiavellian than could be imagined.

Contents • • • • • • • Early life and career [ ] Cook grew up in, New York City, and moved to, when he was eight, where he could first have the 'luxury' of having his own room. He graduated from and, and finished his postgraduate medical training. Cook ran the 's lab in the south of France. He later became an (a submarine doc) with the 's program when he was drafted in 1969. Cook served in the Navy from 1969 to 1971, reaching the rank of.

He wrote his first novel,, while serving on the submarine. Novelist [ ] The Year of the Intern was a failure, but Cook began to study bestsellers.

He said, 'I studied how the reader was manipulated by the writer. I came up with a list of techniques that I wrote down on index cards.

And I used every one of them in Coma.' He conceived the idea for, about a shortage of transplant organs, in 1975. In March 1977, that novel's paperback rights sold for $800,000. It was followed by the thriller in 1979 and another medical thriller,, in 1981. Cook then decided he preferred writing over a career in medicine. Cooks novels combine medical fact with fantasy. His medical thrillers are designed, in part, to keep the public aware of both the technological possibilities of modern medicine and the ensuing socio-ethical problems which come along with it.: 73 Cook says he chose to write thrillers because the forum gives him 'an opportunity to get the public interested in things about medicine that they didn't seem to know about.