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Title: Not His Best Writing
Review: I've read several of Robin Cook's novels, and this wasn't up to par. The writing was very jerky, as if he had someone else flesh out the story line. It was not completely his style of writing. It did have his usual medical jargon, explained for the lay person, and his usual twists and turns in his plots and sub-plots. Some of it was slightly unbelievable, especially the cemetery scene and the epilogue.Now for the kicker: Didn't anyone realize that on p. 4 of the paperback, RC names two obstetric doctors in that hospital, one named Braxton, the other Hicks, saying that Jeffrey was glad they weren't on call that night? (Think about false labor pains--they are called Braxton Hicks pains, named after a doctor in the 1800s.) It's like Robin Cook (or whoever was filling in the storyline) decided it would be great fun to see what reader, if any, would catch that bit of word play.
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