Small Paperback, Good Condition, 1988, 366 pages, ISBN 0 330 30207 8

Outbreak – Robin Cook

Dr Marissa Blumenthal is a recently qualified member of Atlanta's renowned Centre Of Disease Control, yet to put her skills to the test in the field.

But when a mysterious viral outbreak occurs in Los Angeles, she has no time for self-doubt, finding herself plunged into a desperate race to contain a lethal virus for which there is no known cure.

Then further outbreaks occur across the States, all seemingly unconnected except for one bizarre similarity: the victims are always only the doctors and patients of clinics offering low-cost medical care.

In the face of her superiors' fury and colleagues' scepticism, Marissa begins to investigate, her evidence pointing more and more at a ruthless and sinister organisation sworn to achieve a horrific goal no matter what the cost in human life - including Marissa's...

Outbreak is Robin Cook at his hair-raising best. A fiendishly compelling and all too plausible chiller guaranteed to echo in the mind long after the last page is turned.

 "...his most harrowing medical horror story" - New York Times