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It's more than thirty years since medical examiner Jack Stapleton's graduation and as long since he's been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. A post-mortem on a student who had recently been treated by a chiropractor, leads Jack to investigate alternative medicine. Shawn Doherty is an archaeologist and biblical scholar. He has obtained permission for a dig beneath Saint Peter's in Rome and has made a startling discovery with … mehrecclesiastical and medical implications. When Kevin Murray, Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, gets wind of Shawn's findings, he's desperate to keep them from the public.
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Doctor and author Robin Cook is widely credited with introducing the word 'medical' to the thriller genre, and over twenty years after the publication of his breakthrough novel, Coma, he continues to dominate the category he created. Cook has successfully combined medical fact with fantasy to produce a over twenty-seven international bestsellers, including Outbreak (1987), Terminal (1993), Contagion (1996), Chromosome 6 (1997) and most recently Foreign Body (2008). weniger