I’m going to try to intersperse reviews of books I’m listening to or just reading. Just so you know, I tend to prefer mysteries and fantasy. 🙂 I read the occasional historical based fiction, and I’m trying to read more non-fiction faith based books. I also have this rather large stack of WW2 books from the lad’s studies that I want to read that he told me were excellent. 🙂 So LOTS and LOTS of books! By the bye, I’ll link to the book on Amazon and if you purchase through that affiliate link it helps me keep sharing books with you. 🙂 Today I’m going to review a Robin Cook book entitled Foreign Body.
I think almost every Robin Cook book I’ve read is about something medical and something that is not right with the medical community. There are times when it makes me somewhat suspicious so I don’t read a whole bunch of them in a row! Foreign Body is one such book and the scenario feels rather plausible. I could see money being a big factor in this area.
Basic Details You’ll Want
Title: Foreign Body
Author: Robin Cook
Publisher: G.P. Putnam & Sons
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 438
Type: Mystery, Fiction, Medical thriller, medical fiction
Formats: Audio, paperback, kindle, hardcover
Age Range: Adult
Book 8 of 12: Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery
About Author and Book
Robin Cook lives in the world of medicine from training in surgery, working in the medical field with the military and working as an ophthalmologist. He uses his medical knowledge throughout his 37 medical mysteries. When I browsed the books he has written I realized there are many I haven’t read yet! There’s about 16 of them I need to introduce myself too in time. 🙂
Foreign Body. Take a company in the medical field that wants to make money and discovers they are losing money due to medical tourism. Add a fixer to the problem and promise good rewards upon success and suddenly people start dying in hospitals. A sticky wicket in the form of a young medical student becomes a thorn in the side to the fixer and thus a thriller is formed.
What did I think?
I liked it or I wouldn’t have finished it! It was compelling. I wanted to know if Jack and Laurie could help Jennifer solve the mystery of her grandmother’s unexpected death.
Mr. Cook does an excellent job of creating desire to see how all the pieces fit together. Could cremation actually help solve the case? Or could they find a doctor who will buck the system?
I was fascinated to discover how the medical and forsenic rules differ between countries. Jack and Laurie were, admittedly, lucky to not get caught circumventing the rules. If this were a true story I would wonder what would happen with the people who helped them.
The characters felt real due to their errors in judgement, their desire to make amends, real reasons for hesitations, and such like. No character felt too good to be true, or too evil to exist. They were all just people making good and bad decisions.
I don’t recall any use of inappropriate language, or at least if there was, there wasn’t enough to turn me aside.
It was great to delve into the India and catch a glimpse of the disparity in their system. The other poverty as well as the beauty. The reactions of the Americans varied greatly… with most despising the utter poverty some people live in.
If you like a good mystery, and don’t mind questioning the medical system, Robin Cook’s Foreign Body will delight you and take you into a different world for a while.
My husband might like this one but certainly not for me!
Does Joe like mysteries? That’s good to know. 🙂