ISBN: 9780330254106    Publisher: Pan Macmillan Year of publishing: 1978     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 331        Language: English

They called it "minor surgery," but Nancy Greenly, Sean Berman, and a dozen others--all admitted to Boston Memorial Hospital for routine procedures were victims of the same inexplicable, hideous tragedy on the operating table. They never woke up. . . .

In Boston's largest hospital, two patients undergoing routine surgery fall victim to a baffling mishap. They never regain consciousness. Fighting against the scorn of her colleagues and the medical establishment, one brave woman starts to investigate the coma cases: steadily uncovering something unbelievably hideous . . . Coma. The fear will never leave you. 'Master of the medical thriller' New York Times
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Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word 'medical' to the thriller genre, and over twenty years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fantasy to produce a over twenty-seven international bestsellers, including Outbreak (1987), Terminal (1993), Contagion (1996), Chromosome 6 (1997) and Foreign Body (2008).
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