Robin Cook

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  • Bibliography:
    42 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    September 1972
  • Latest Book:
    December 2024
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About the Author

Robin Cook is credited for giving the thriller genre a "medical" touch. Educated at Columbia Medical School and after doing a residency in general surgery, Cook served in the Navy. After completing his time in the Navy, he was discharged as a Lieutenant Commander. He then did a second residency in ophthalmology at Harvard. He started a private practice and also worked for Harvard in both their public policy and medical schools.

Thirty-four years after publishing his first novel, Coma, Cook is still a leader in the medical thriller genre. He has written over twenty-eight novels that have been translated in over forty languages, all of which have been New York Times Bestsellers. Many of his novels have been turned into successful movies for both film and television including Coma as a feature film. His most recent novel, Cure, was published in August 2010. He currently lives in Florida.

Full Series List in Order

Jack Stapleton

1 - Blindsight (Jan-1992)
2 - Contagion (1995)
3 - Chromosome 6 (Mar-1997)
4 - Vector (Feb-1999)
5 - Marker (Jun-2005)
6 - Crisis (Aug-2006)
7 - Critical (Aug-2007)
8 - Foreign Body (Aug-2008)
9 - Intervention (Aug-2009)
10 - Cure (Aug-2010)
11 - Pandemic (Dec-2018)
12 - Genesis (Dec-2019)
13 - Night Shift (Dec-2022)
14 - Manner of Death (Dec-2023)

Book List in Order: 42 titles

  • The Year of the Intern

    “DR. PETER’S, “THE PATIENT HWAS STOPPED BREATHING AND DOESN’T HAVE ANY PULSE!” The nurse’s voice of the phone is desperate, but young Dr. Peter’s, in his first weeks of internship, is only bone-tired and a little afraid. He has forgo...

  • Coma

    They call it 'minor surgery,' but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others, all admitted to Memorial Hospital for routine procedures, are victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never wake up again. Som...

  • Brain

    • / Medical Thriller
    • Buy Buy

    MARTIN PHILIPS AND DENISE SANGER WERE DOCTORS, LOVERS--AND DESPERATELY AFRAID Both of them suspected that something was wrong - terribly wrong - in the great medical research center where they worked. Both of them wondered why a beautiful young w...

  • Sphinx

    AMID THE AWESOME TEMPLES IN EGYPT'S VALLEY OF THE KINGS A FABULOUS TREASURE IS WAITING TO BE DISCOVERED, A TREASURE WORTH DYING - OR KILLING - FOR. It was the magic and mystery of an empire long past that beautiful Erica Baron came to explore. Inn...

  • Fever

    A MAN, A WOMAN, AND A CHILD IN A TERRIFYING MEDICAL NIGHTMARE Charles Martel is a brilliant cancer researcher who discovers his own daughter is the victim of leukemia resulting from a gigantic chemical plant conspiracy - a conspiracy that not only...

  • Godplayer

    In this “nerve-wracking” (Chicago Sun-Times) novel, a doctor discovers that neither her marriage nor her job is what she thought -- and her quest to find the truth may just kill her, from the #1 bestselling “master of the medical thriller” (T...

  • Mindbend

    Future doctor Adam Schonbert loved his wife. That was why he took a job with the giant drug firm, Arolen, for the money he needed for their coming baby. His wife, Jennifer, felt she would get the best of care at the Julian Clinic as her pregnancy ...

  • Outbreak

    Murder and intrigue reach epidemic proportions when a devastating plague sweeps the country. Dr. Marissa Blumenthal of the Atlanta Centers for Disease Control investigates … and soon uncovers the medical world’s deadliest secret…...

  • Mortal Fear

    At a large Boston clinic, a world-class biologist stumbles upon a miraculous discovery, a major scientific breakthrough. Soon, healthy, middle-aged patients are dying of old age. And the ultimate experiment in terror begins... ...



  • Harmful Intent

    It should have been a routine childbirth. But somehow, the mother died in delivery, the baby was born brain-damaged, and Jeffrey Rhodes, the anesthesiologist, is running for his life. Charged with malpractice, he is found guilty of harmful intent and...

  • Mutation

    On the forefront of surrogate parenting and genetic research, this is the explosive tale of a brilliant doctor who sought to create the son of his dreams - and invented a living nightmare......

  • Vital Signs

    Where life begins, terror lurks... In the eyes of her envious peers, Marissa has it all: a superb professional reputation, a flourishing pediatrics practice, even a fairytale marriage with the man of her dreams - Robert Buchanan, an entrepreneur invo...

  • Blindsight

    Jack Stapleton - 1

    Robin Cook is back - with his most shocking story of medical conspiracy since COMA...Today, organ transplants are common miracles of science. But if the supply cannot meet the demand, how far will people go to find donors? Dr. Laurie Montgomery, a fo...

  • Terminal

    At a prestigious Florida medical center, brain cancer patients are treated with a one-hundred-percent success rate. Sean Murphy, a young medical student, finds it hard to believe. Is it a miracle cure? Or the biggest con job in the history of medicin...

  • Fatal Cure

    Public health care is one of the most important issues in America today. Now Robin Cook, the bestselling master of medical suspense, confronts this controversial subject with an all-to-possible scenario as powerful - and terrifying - as his groundbre...

  • Acceptable Risk

    Robin Cook has always been on the cutting edge of the latest medical controversies. In Acceptable Risk, he confronts one of the most provocative issues of out time: personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. Neuroscientist...

  • Contagion

    • / Medical Thriller
    • Buy Buy
    Jack Stapleton - 2

    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. Feeling less the golden boy than a jaded cynic, Stapleton r...

  • Chromosome 6

    Jack Stapleton - 3

    In his most prophetic thriller yet, Robin Cook challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulation and cloning. In the jungles of equatorial Africa, a biotechnology giant has taken transplant surgery and animal research to a new level. Where one mi...

  • Invasion

    With his finger on the pulse of the latest medical technology, Robin Cook preys on our deepest fears with uncanny skill. Now, in his most provocative thriller to date, he explores a sudden outbreak of strange new symptoms that defy diagnosis. The cau...



  • Toxin

    Just how safe is America's meat supply? Recent health scares and new public awareness have made this one of today's most controversial subjects - and the basis of Robin Cook's most startling, and important novel. When a doctor's daughter becomes in...

  • Vector

    Jack Stapleton - 4

    New York City cabbie Yuri Davydov is a disgruntled Russian emigre poised to lash out at the adoptive nation he believes has denied him his American dream. A former technician in the Soviet biological weapons system, Yuri possesses the knowledge to wr...

  • Abduction

    A mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding - and a discovery that will change everything we know about life on Earth......

  • Shock

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “infectious medical thriller” (Kirkus Reviews) from the renowned author of Coma, two young women, curious about their donated eggs, uncover a plot more sinister than either of them could have imagined. ....

  • Seizure

    Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential Southern demagogue whose support of traditional American values includes a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies. When he's called to chair a subcommittee introducing legislation to ban new...

  • Marker

    Jack Stapleton - 5

    As her relationship with Dr. Jack Stapleton begins to unravel, Dr. Laurie Montgomery starts investigating the inexplicable deaths of young, healthy people after successful routine surgery. She discovers that the deaths might be intentional--the work ...

  • Crisis

    Jack Stapleton - 6

    A partner in an exclusive concierge medical practice, Dr. Craig Bowman has reached an impressive level of success. But this idyllic situation comes to a grinding halt when he's served with a summons for medical negligence--and things get much, much w...

  • Critical

    Jack Stapleton - 7

    After a rough climb to the top, doctor and businesswoman Angela Dawson appears to have it all: a start-up--Angels Healthcare--that's about to go public, and a controlling interest in three busy specialist hospitals in New York City as well as plans f...

  • Foreign Body

    Jack Stapleton - 8

    Devastated by the news that her beloved grandmother has died after hip surgery in New Delhi, UCLA medical student Jennifer Hernandez flies to India, desperate for answers. Jennifer's grandmother appears to be another victim of medical tourism -- unin...

  • Intervention

    Jack Stapleton - 9

    New York Times -- bestselling author Robin Cook returns with another ripped-from-the-headlines medical thriller, where DNA science, biotechnology, and religion collide. I t's been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack St...



  • Cure

    Jack Stapleton - 10

    The New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with another heart-pounding story of medical intrigue. With her young son's potentially fatal neuroblastoma in complete remission, New York City medical examiner Laur...

  • Death Benefit

    Pia Grazdani is an exceptional yet aloof medical student working closely with Columbia University Medical Center's premier scientist on cutting edge research that could revolutionize health care by creating replacement organs for critically-ill patie...

  • Nano

    After a tumultuous year in which her mentor is murdered and her estranged father comes back into her life, Pia Grazdani, the embattled medical student from Death Benefit, decides to take a year off from her medical studies and escape New York City. I...

  • Cell

    The New York Times -- bestselling author and master of the medical thriller returns with a top-notch fusion of groundbreaking medical science and edge-of-your-seat suspense. George Wilson, M.D., a radiology resident in Los Angeles, is about to en...

  • Host

    The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, takes readers back to where the genre began, with Coma: what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical “incubators...

  • Charlatans

    The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook. Newly minted chief resident at Boston Memorial Hospital Noah Rothauser is swamped in his new position, from managing the surgical sch...

  • The Legend of Parzival

    Enter the extraordinary world of Arthurian legend in an adventure overflowing with knightly chivalry, the danger of jousting and the warmth of true love. But the Legend of Parzival is more than the tale of one knight's epic journey to find the elusiv...

  • Pandemic

    Jack Stapleton - 11

    New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the cutting-edge world of gene-modification in this pulse-pounding new medical thriller. When an unidentified, seemingly healthy young woman collapses suddenly on the New York City subway and d...

  • Genesis

    Jack Stapleton - 12

    New York Times-bestselling author Robin Cook takes on the ripped-from-the-headlines topic of harnessing DNA from ancestry websites to catch a killer in this timely and explosive new medical thriller. When the body of twenty-eight-year-old social w...

  • Viral

    In this electrifying medical thriller from New York Times bestselling author Robin Cook, a family’s exposure to a rare yet deadly virus ensnares them in a growing danger to mankind -- and pulls back the curtain on a healthcare system powered by pro...



  • Night Shift

    Jack Stapleton - 13

    In this exhilarating new medical thriller by bestselling author Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are lured into the dark underbelly of hospital dangers when an internist dies mysteriously.Colleagues-turned-spouses Dr. Laurie Montgomery and D...

  • Manner of Death

    Jack Stapleton - 14

    In the new fast-paced medical thriller from bestselling author Robin Cook, fan favorites Jack and Laurie are inadvertently drawn into a dangerous vortex of a series of homicides that have been cleverly staged as suicides.After Dr. Jack Stapleton...

  • Bellevue

    From the bestselling author and "master of the medical thriller" (The New York Times), Robin Cook, comes a new tale of suspense-horror about a first-year resident whose life-shattering visions reveal the truth behind some of the greatest medical adva...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Robin Cook has published 42 books.

The next book by Robin Cook, Bellevue, will be published in December 2024.

The first book by Robin Cook, The Year of the Intern, was published in September 1972.

Yes. Robin Cook has 1 series.
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