CHARLATANS

CHARLATANS
ROBIN COOK
 
A gripping medical thriller set in a pioneering Boston hospital where a series of unexpected deaths leads to a terrifying revelation.
 
Charlatans is an explosive thriller from New York Times bestselling author and master of the medical thriller Robin Cook.
 
Noah Rothauser is the new super chief resident at the state-of-the-art Boston Memorial Hospital. Taking on such a prestigious job is a dream come true, but the pressures of the role become all too clear when a seemingly routine operation ends in disaster. With potential foul play suspected it falls to Noah to investigate what happened.
 
Questioning those involved uncovers bitter feuds within the team when the egotistical Dr. William Mason is quick to blame staff anesthesiologist Dr. Ava London for the tragic outcome. However Dr. London, along with the nursing staff, point the finger at the surgeon.
 
When two more unexpected deaths occur, Noah is forced to look closer at the impressively competent, charming, yet mysterious Dr. London. With his own job and integrity coming into jeopardy, Noah must decide which doctor is at fault and who he can believe - before any more lives are lost . . .
ROBIN COOK
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 fiction to produce over twenty-seven international bestsellers, including Outbreak(1987), Terminal (1993),Contagion (1996), Chromosome 6(1997), Foreign Body (2008),Intervention (2010) and most recently Cure (2011).