Robin Cook is the pioneer that created a new category of fiction: a medical thriller, with his first novel Coma. Since then he has written 35 more. When our books landed on a "10 best" list of novels ...

The titles are pithy — just one evocative, slightly unsettling word. "Coma." "Outbreak." "Contagion." "Pandemic." And now, "Viral." The stories are page-turners from the "How could it get worse?" ...

With his thrillers, author Robin Cook typically tries to educate the public about a major scientific topic of the day. Putnam/Riverhead Publicity The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner ...

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Robin Cook, credited as the inventor of the medical thriller, was a doctor who never set out to be a writer but he just wanted to find a way to explain medical issues to people in ...