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Title: Are they SURE that Robin Cook wrote this?
Review: Ok...I'm still shocked that Robin Cook wrote this. Are they SURE that this wasn't written by some wannabe Micheal Crichton? The only elements of a traditional Robin Cook novel (Sphinx and The Year of the Intern nonwithstanding) are the brief references to microbes (although I think that Robin Cook made the mistaken assumption that decontaminating someone externally decontaminates them completely). The rest of the book reads like a poorly written Micheal Crichton novel(including an ending almost identical to Timeline), and nothing like I expected. So why did I give it 2 stars instead of 1? If nothing else, its a good read if you have nothing else handy. As far as Robin Cook novels go, this one goes squarely at the bottom (w/Vector at the top) and I do not recommend it, but you could do worse.
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