title: Abduction
author:  Robin Cook 
description: The world's bestselling master of medical suspense hereskillfully combines human passions and high-tech thrills in an eerie anddisturbing drama that unfolds on the borders of the unknown. In Abduction,his most daringnovel yet, a mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leadsa crew of drivers and oceanography to investigate a phenomena beyond scientificunderstanding. And to a discovery that will permanently change everything wehave previously come to know about life on this Earth.
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  ………Robin Cook 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
     1 
   
     March 7 
   
     Katherine Collins mounted the three steps from the sidewalk with a 
  fragile sense of resolve. She reached the combination glass and stainless 
  steel door and pushed. But it didn't open. She leaned back, gazed up at 
  the lintel, and read the incised inscription, "Hobson University Medical 
  Center: For the Sick and Infirm of the City of New York." For 
  Katherine's way of thinking it should have read, "Abandon All Hope Ye 
  Who Enter Here." 
   
     Turning around, her pupils narrowed in the morning March sunlight; her 
  urge was to flee and return to her warm apartment. The last place in the 
  world that she wanted to go was back into the hospital. But before she 
  could move, several patients mounted the steps and brushed past her. 
  Without pausing they opened the door to the main clinic and were 
  instantly devoured by the ominous bulk of the building. 
   
     Katherine closed her eyes for an instant, marveling at her o