title: Brain (A Medical Thriller)
author:  Robin Cook 
description: "Absorbing...provocative."<b>&#151;The Houston Chronicle</b>
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  “Leave it to doctor-turned-novelist Robin Cook to scare us all to death.”
  
  
  — _Los Angeles Times_
  
  
  
  
  
  # **INVASION**
  
  
  _With his finger on the pulse of the latest medical technology, Robin Cook
  preys on our deepest fears with uncanny skill. Now, in this most provocative
  thriller, he explores a sudden outbreak of strange new symptoms that defy
  diagnosis. The cause is unknown—and unknowable—because it is unlike anything
  humankind has ever seen…_
  
  
  “Dr. Robin Cook certainly knows how to tell a story.”
  
  
  — _The Detroit News_
  
  
  _Praise for_
  
  
  **ROBIN COOK**
  
  
  _and his bestselling novels_
  
  
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  “Straight out of today’s headlines.”
  
  
  —UPI
  
  
  “Holds you page after page.”
  
  
  —Larry King, _USA Today_
  
  
  “Shocking and thought-provoking.”
  
  
  —The Associated Press
  
  
  “Fast…exciting…spine-tingling.”
  
  
  — _The Denver Post_
  
  
  “Stern and bracing…[a] suspenseful thriller.”
  
  
  — _San Francisco Chronicle_
  
  
  “A real grabber.”
  
  
  — _Los Angeles Times_
  
  
  “A riveting plot, f