There, Dubchek, whose advances Marissa spurned in L.A., cold-shoulders her efforts to pinpoint the virus' source and mode of spread. Cyrill Dubchek, contain the virus and return to Atlanta. More than 20 die before she and a team led by her boss, Dr. When Ebola, a deadly African virus, surfaces in a prepaid health clinic in L.A., Marissa flies in to investigate. to whom Cook donates-symptomatic of his lazy-man's approach to writing-a physical description identical to Genevieve Bujold's (star of the film version of Coma). The heroine here is Centers for Disease Control (CDC) invesitgator Marissa Blumenthal, a young M.D. But here he concocts a premise-epidemic viral outbreaks in hospitals-that generates the momentum to make this his most enjoyable novel in years, albeit one flawed with his usual hackneyed cast, implausible plotting, and Marvel Comics literary style. Since his ace first novel, Coma, Cook's authorial skills have atrophied, despite exercise in a series of medical chillers (Brain, Fever, Godplayer, Mindbend).
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