After the success of Coma, Robin Cook wrote Sphinx and Brain, after which the author decided to stop working in medicine and focus full-time on writing books. The rights for the paperback edition of Coma was sold for $800, 000. In that book, he used every technique that he once listed on those index cards back in the day. He learned a number of techniques that he wrote down on index cards, and then he wrote Coma, the book that literally propelled him to the bestseller list that he so much coveted. So Robin Cook began studying bestsellers (including Jaws and Love Story) and learning what made them as popular as they were. It didn’t sell overly well, and it was, plainly put a failure. Leaving school, he enrolled at the Navy, where he enrolled in the submarine school and navy diving school.Īfter writing and publishing his debut novel, The Year of the Intern, he realized that it was not a very good book. After his ophthalmology residency, he also attended Kennedy School of Government, graduating with Chemistry as his major. New York Times best-selling author Robin Cook (Robert Bryan Cook) was born in 1940 in Brooklyn, New York and lived there until the age of 8, when he moved with his parents to Leonia, New Jersey.Īfter high school, he attended Wesleyan University for his undergrad studies, and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons for medical school, from where, after his graduation, he continued his studies by getting his postgraduate medical training at Harvard. Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery Series

Genesis, (Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery #12), 2019 Here are the Robin Cook books in order for the author’s bestselling novels including his Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery series.

Others, like myself, who love reading everything medical thriller, have been reading the Robin Cook books from the very first time we came across them, around the end of the 1970s. Many of the author’s books have been made into movies (including Coma, which was directed by Michael Crichton), and some readers have come across the books after first watching the chilling movies. Who hasn’t read Coma, Sphinx, Chromosome 6, Acceptable Risk, Vector, or Contagion, all stories dealing with horrible viruses and threats against either one hospital or the entire human race? Robin Cook, with his book, Coma, is considered the father of the medical thriller genre, and with good reason. Last Updated on ApRobin Cook is probably one of the most prolific – if not the most prolific – medical thriller authors of our modern times. Jack Stapleton & Laurie Montgomery Series.

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