Typical Robin Cook. With all the news about medical breakthroughs and things that are being discovered in genetics, this was relevant and interesting from that angle. If you like the medical thrillers, it's a good read.

I picked it up from the post office last Thursday.
Thanks a lot for sharing, Irishthree!
A beautiful hardcover!

I am currently reading it.
So far, so good, Robin Cook at its best!
Potential RABCK or bookray...
Thank you again, Irishtree, I just found your penguin card...

I have finished this one in record time, and really enjoyed it.
Irishtree is right, typical Robin Cook, and typically enjoyable. A page-turner!
I will try and start a bookray, as it appears in many wish lists.
Thanks for sharing!

Now a bookray...

Sent last evening (June, 10th) to Daisyflower123.
Enjoy!

Daisyflower123 (Germany)
Voveryte (U.K.) (skipped)
SherlockFan (New Zealand)
Wandering-B (Hong Kong)
Skylerdragon (U.S.A.)(the book is here! BOOKRAY SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED!)

The book arrived today. I'm looking forward to reading it.

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Traveling on to SherlockFan.

Book has arrived in New Zealand. Not sure exactly what day as I was out of town for a few days and it was waiting here for me when I returned late last night.
Just one other book I've just started (Ian Rankin) and then I'll be able to get right on to this one.

Thanks Daisyflower123 for sending, and Irishthree for including me.
What happened to Voveryte (UK)? Did she ask to be skipped? Not trying to teach anyone how to do their jobs but usually the thread shows if someone has asked to be skipped.

I have thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was, as others have said, typically Robin Cook but that is not necessarily a bad thing. There was the odd time when I felt it was a trifle pot-boilerish and one could predict what calamity would be next but nevertheless I could scarcely leave it alone. Pity about getting sleep.

The remarkable advances in science and genetics kept me thoroughly entranced. Something dear to my heart really as I'm a keen genealogist and involved in a DNA study for folk worldwide with my maiden name which was LUSK. This study is of male lines and luckily my brother was keen to be involved. We've found exact matches with two different lines in the US. one guy in Georgia and another in Houston TX which I find very exciting. We all connect somewhere back in Scotland, probably in Ayrshire where I know my folk were in the early seventeen hundreds.

The possibilities that arise through markers in tiny drops of blood seem endless and some scary possible scenarios will no doubt give rise to other tales like this one.

One interesting thing though. There is a strange bit of damage in the bottom corner of the back cover which looks for all the world as if a dog has taken a bite from the book. I'd swear it is toothmarks but there ain't no dog here, and the package doesn't show any sign of mishap. Doesn't spoil the story at all. If anything it adds an extra spice.

I've pm-ed wandering-B and will send it off just as soon as I hear.

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Posted off to wandering-B. Had to send Economy class. Busyness at Christmas and global falling economy means that I've got to be careful just now. Hope it arrives safely and doesn't get too entangled with Christmas mail.

Received in today's post - did not take very long, all things considered. Thanks to all for sharing, bookworm-lady for making it a ray and Sherlockfan for sending it to me. Will read as quickly as possible - but it may take the better part of a month - I've got several rings/rays in front of it, but will keep all posted.

I would agree with others that this is a typical Robin Cook book as in a page turner with fascinating medical leanings. On one hand, the information that can be detected from a drop of blood is empowering, but on the other hand, do we really want to know everything? Not sure about that.

Thoroughly enjoyed this read - am shipping off to Skylerdragon as soon as the Post Office is open (probably Thursday since Monday through Wednesday are public holidays).

Thanks again to all for sharing.

So sorry, Bookworm-lady, to cause you distress over the status of this book. I mailed it on 3 February, via surface mail from the Wan Tau Tong branch here in Tai Po, NT.

Changing status, and hoping for the best!
Eva

I am so sorry. I recieved this book with a very nice bookmark, and a postcard from Wandering B. I thought I had registered it long ago. Now I see that I haven't. Please forgive me. The book is by an amazing author. I hope to read it very soon. Thank you both for your patience with me and parden my delay in registering.

Robin Cook is amazing. Science is certainly tangling with our ethics. I love how this story plays out too. Every tiime I read a book by Robin Cook, I am always impressed. Another medical thriller involving the Office of the City Medical Examiner of New York. This time Dr. Laurie Montgomery & Dr. Jack Stapleton assemble the pieces left by a serial killer in a Manhattan hospital. This book also takes a rightfully critical look at managed care in America today and how managed care is nothing more than big, powerful, greedy business, not healthcare in any shape or form. The serial killer in this book is so sociopathic, he/she will rattle your nerves & your bones. An excellent thrill ride, although a bit verbose at times. This book ranks near the top of my list of favorite Robin Cook thrillers!

Marker, like all of Robin Cook's books is an exciting and educational read. I absolutely love the characters of Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery. I also got to know Detective Lou Souldano better in this one too. Adding to these characters were the rugged and dangerous personna of Jasmine Rakoczi, and Roger Rousseau, a temporary distraction in the as yet unanswered commitment between Jack and Laurie.

Cook also does a fantastic job of addressing current events in the medical field. Nursing shortages leads to desperate hiring practices. The sudden ability to map the human genome is monumental. Finally the pressure to keep costs down and profits high, insurance providers are willing to take some unacceptable risks with patients. All of these concerns play out in Marker and are discussed in Cook's Author's Note.

Like all of Cook's books I have read, this one had a little much coincidence and plenty of heroism on the part of the protagonists. I close it (and the three copies I have of it) to look excitedly at another opportunity to explore medical mysteries with Robin Cook again. He is a fantastic author.

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I placed this on top of the window wash compartment inside the 3rd fueling bay. I hope it finds a good reader. Picture attached!

I picked this up at a booksale in Columbia. I like Robin Cook, so I am sure I will enjoy this one.

Though this isn't one of my favorite books by Robin Cook, it was really good. A few scenes beg reason, but other than that, I totally accespt the insurance company's conspiracies outlined here to control costs. Plausible, frightning, and definitely an enjoyable read. Cook always pleases me.

I will pass along to a friend.

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Placed on the sharing shelf where I took another book to read. Yay!

I cannot begin to tell you how thrilling it is to know that a book I sent to Spain as the result of a RABCK contest in 2007 has gone from Pennsylvania, USA to Spain--Germany--New Zealand--Hong Kong--Missouri,USA! To touch so many lives around the world, even if only briefly, through a book is AMAZING!