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Contagion, Robin Cook

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Contagion

Robin Cook

Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series, 02

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. Stapleton retrains in forensic pathology and relocates to find an uneasy niche for himself in 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. 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 practice, Stapleton fears he has stumbled upon a diabolic conspiracy

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