Death benefit

Death benefit

Robin Cook, 1940-

Book - 2011

Behind the prim gates of the Greenwich, Connecticut, McMansions, Wall Street whizzes turn their attentions from mortgages to another possible profit source: the $25 trillion life-insurance industry. By securitizing the policies of the old and sick, they hope to make another financial killing. At the same time, Natalie Savondnik and Ronald Goodall, two exceptional yet aloof medical residents, are working closely with their medical center's premier scientist on cutting-edge diabetes research. When their mentor dies suddenly, they launch a quiet investigation. As they dig deeper, it becomes clear that the scientist's death was not from natural causes. Is it possible someone is manipulating private life insurance information to allow ...investors to benefit from the deaths of others?

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Subjects
Medical research personnel > Fiction.
Life insurance > Fiction.
Medical fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Genres
Medical fiction
Mystery fiction
Published
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons c2011.
Language
English
Main Author
Robin Cook, 1940- (-)
Physical Description
418 p. ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780425250365
9780399157462
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

In this formulaic medical thriller from bestseller Cook (Coma), Pia Grazdani, a 26-year-old Columbia Medical School student who's overcome a difficult childhood to emerge as a brilliant, beautiful, if still troubled adult, attracts the interest of Nobel Prize-winning molecular geneticist Tobias Rothman. Rothman, who has worked with virulent strains of typhoid-causing salmonella, is focusing on a revolutionary program of growing entire organs from stem cells. Meanwhile, greedy Edmund Mathews, the chairman of LifeDeals Inc., is using the company to buy up life insurance policies cheaply based on current actuarial data. Facing devastating financial losses if organ transplants were to become much cheaper, Mathews and his partners scheme to end the threat posed by Rothman's organogenesis work. Grazdani ends up squarely in the villains' crosshairs, but fortunately, smitten fellow Columbia med student George Wilson is there for support. Cook's deft handling of medical science helps lift an otherwise pedestrian plot. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

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