"Medic is next to God, He can heal and kill as well.."
Robin Cook's latest medical thriller Nano is a spell bounding tale of mystery and suspense.
Robin Cook, having a writing career of now more than 30 years, have given lots of medical master pieces from subjects like organ transplant, alien viruses e.t.c. Now he is back again with another subject that has surely caught many attentions since last few years. Nanotechnology, can be called an unexplored territory, where many mind shaking discoveries are being made almost everyday. "Nano" successfully touches this subject softly with controversial area of stem cells and research patenting. The in depth description shows the huge sack of knowledge and research of the writer in the field.
For the readers, I would like to tell that "Nano" is a sequel to Cook's previous "Death benefit". Most of the character like the protagonist Pia Gazdani and George Wilson have been repeated with a lot of other characters and their back story. Pia who was a medical student have now become a researcher at a multinational giant called "Nano" engaged in molecular manufacturing, with an intent to find cure for friend Will, who was shot head during a cross fire encounter (Death Benefit part of story). But as she spends time, she finds that the organisation has some secrets and is warned by her seniors not dig the unnecessary wells. But this has a inverse effect and she starts investigating the secrets by all means she could find.
Though this is one of the best Cook's creation I have ever read, still the book has a lot of positives and negatives. Firstly the story seems to go offtrack many times due to the in depth description. There is a huge span of time between the two important events to occur. Also many sequences in the story doesn't result in anything productive, so it is possible that a reader may loose interest and give up the read. A very huge patience is required to cross this span until the story picks up the pace. Also when the story actually paces up, the climax is soon to be approached is realized by the reader. Hence the reader is disappointing twice firstly as the story doesn't paces up and secondly when it paces up the end is arrived.
In spite of all these negatives on most important and powerful factor that over rules all is the story. The story is so strong that it keeps the reader spell bounded at the end. The character of Pia has been developed as a perfect protagonist for a thriller as a women ready to do any thing to uncover the truth. The writer takes all points for the in depth research and his perfect descriptive style to convey a medical thriller when he knows that maximum of the readers are not familiar of the medical technicalities and terminologies. It is also possible that after reading the book the reader might take some action if he finds a patient in emergency.
Over all the book is strongly referred for patient readers and the ones who have read Cooks earlier work. I'll give it a two and a half star out of five as I am not very one of them.
This review is part of review program conducted by MySmartPrice.com.
For the readers, I would like to tell that "Nano" is a sequel to Cook's previous "Death benefit". Most of the character like the protagonist Pia Gazdani and George Wilson have been repeated with a lot of other characters and their back story. Pia who was a medical student have now become a researcher at a multinational giant called "Nano" engaged in molecular manufacturing, with an intent to find cure for friend Will, who was shot head during a cross fire encounter (Death Benefit part of story). But as she spends time, she finds that the organisation has some secrets and is warned by her seniors not dig the unnecessary wells. But this has a inverse effect and she starts investigating the secrets by all means she could find.
Though this is one of the best Cook's creation I have ever read, still the book has a lot of positives and negatives. Firstly the story seems to go offtrack many times due to the in depth description. There is a huge span of time between the two important events to occur. Also many sequences in the story doesn't result in anything productive, so it is possible that a reader may loose interest and give up the read. A very huge patience is required to cross this span until the story picks up the pace. Also when the story actually paces up, the climax is soon to be approached is realized by the reader. Hence the reader is disappointing twice firstly as the story doesn't paces up and secondly when it paces up the end is arrived.
In spite of all these negatives on most important and powerful factor that over rules all is the story. The story is so strong that it keeps the reader spell bounded at the end. The character of Pia has been developed as a perfect protagonist for a thriller as a women ready to do any thing to uncover the truth. The writer takes all points for the in depth research and his perfect descriptive style to convey a medical thriller when he knows that maximum of the readers are not familiar of the medical technicalities and terminologies. It is also possible that after reading the book the reader might take some action if he finds a patient in emergency.
Over all the book is strongly referred for patient readers and the ones who have read Cooks earlier work. I'll give it a two and a half star out of five as I am not very one of them.
This review is part of review program conducted by MySmartPrice.com.