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Robin Cook: Out of the wilderness
Call me old fashioned, I tell Robin Cook, but I've always trusted a politician with a beard. Ho Chi Min, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara - these were men you could depend on for an unswerving adherence to their core beliefs.
Call me old fashioned, I tell Robin Cook, but I've always trusted a politician with a beard. Ho Chi Min, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara - these were men you could depend on for an unswerving adherence to their core beliefs.
"You and David Blunkett," I suggest, "represent something of a break with this tradition. Blunkett, who used to be an irreproachable socialist, established a Home Office that, in your words, is more draconian than even the Tories would have dared to be..."
"Yes."
"And you have made substantial changes in your position on many issues: Europe, nuclear disarmament..."
"I have been in politics a long time," he replies. "Society changes. Your views mature. I wouldn't säga that I have fundamentally altered my perspective
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Robin Cook (American novelist)
American physician and novelist (born 1940)
"Robin Cook (novelist)" redirects here. For the UK novelist, see Derek Raymond.
Robert Brian "Robin" Cook (born May 4, 1940)[2] is an American physician and novelist who writes largely about medicine and topics affecting public health.
He is known best for combining medical writing with the thriller genre. Many of his books have been bestsellers on The New York Times Best Seller List. Several of his books have also been featured by Reader's Digest. His books have sold nearly 400 million copies worldwide.[3]
Early life and career
[edit]Cook was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Woodside, Queens. He relocated to Leonia, New Jersey when he was eight years old, where he could first have the "luxury" of having his own room.[4] He graduated from Leonia High School in 1958.[5]
Subsequently, Cook graduated from Wesleyan University and Columbia Uni
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Robin Cook (born May 4, 1940) is an American doctor and author who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health. His novels deal with themes related to science fiction and often fall within the mystery/thriller genre. His premise is simple: "I could write articles about medicine subjects, but most of the people will only understand these problems if they are presented to them as a novel".
Biography[]
Cook was born in New York. He graduated from Wesleyan University and Columbia University School of Medicine.
Style and themes[]
Robin Cook's writings have similar themes. There is, sometimes, a heroine who discovers the entire plot and, unlike other characters, is not killed off during the course of the book. Most of his novels are written in the form of a diary.
Cook takes his ideas from his previous experience as a doctor. He has explored subjects such as organ donation, genetic engineering, fertility treatment, mind control, in vitro fertilization, research fu