Outbreak (novel)
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Author | Robin Cook |
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Cover artist | David O'Connor |
Language | English |
Publisher | Putnam (US) Macmillan (UK) |
Publication date | 1987 |
Media type | Print () |
Pages | 366 |
ISBN | 0-330-30207-8 |
Preceded by | Mindbend |
Followed by | Mortal Fear |
Outbreak is a medical thriller written by Robin Cook and published in 1987. The novel is about an Ebola virus outbreak in the United States. It follows Dr. Melissa Blumenthal, an epidemiologist researching the virus. However, with the more she dives into its emergence and cases, she uncovers that not all is what it seems.
This book is unrelated to the 1995 movie with a similar ploy also called Outbreak.[1] In 1995, the book was adapted into a film and released under the title "Robin Cook's Virus", later renamed Formula for Death, starring Nicollette Sheridan and William Devane.[2]
Synopsis
[edit]When the director of a Los Angeles health maintenance clinic succumbs to an untreatable and virulently contagious virus that kills him and seven of his patients, the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta responds immediately with a state of high alert. Unless the virus is isolated and checked, mankind would be facing its gravest medical crisis since the Black Death.
Assigned by the CDC to investigate the virus, Dr. Marissa Blumenthal is soon caught up in an extreme crisis. The California case is merely the first in a series of outbreaks that occur in unrelated geographical areas but with its own set of commonalities; the locations are always health-care facilities, and the victims are only physicians and their patients. As her investigation is accompanied by twists and turns, Marissa finds that behind the natural threat lurks a far more sinister possibility: sabotage.
Before she discovers the truth, Marissa must overcome her superiors' fury, her colleagues' doubts and the wrath of a powerful cabal sworn to achieve its aims, no matter what the cost in human life, including Marissa's.
Publication information
[edit]- Cook, Robin. (1987) Outbreak. ISBN 0-425-10687-X
References
[edit]- ^ Walton, Priscilla L. (2004-09-08). Our Cannibals, Ourselves. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-02925-7.
- ^ "TV TURNING TO ROBIN COOK THRILLERS FOR INSPIRATION". Chicago Tribune. 6 May 1995. Retrieved 2022-06-11.
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