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Also by Robin Cook:

Manner of Death, December 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
Night Shift, October 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Night Shift, December 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Viral, July 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
Viral, August 2021
Hardcover / e-Book
Genesis, December 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book
Genesis, December 2019
Hardcover / e-Book
Pandemic, December 2018
Hardcover / e-Book
Charlatans, August 2018
Mass Market Paperback
Charlatans, September 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Host, July 2016
Mass Market Paperback
Host, November 2015
Hardcover / e-Book
Cell, February 2014
Hardcover
Death Benefit, August 2012
Paperback / e-Book (reprint)
Intervention, July 2010
Mass Market Paperback
Foreign Body, August 2008
Hardcover
Invasion, November 2007
Paperback
Crisis, July 2006
Hardcover
Marker, June 2006
Paperback (reprint)
Seizure, October 2004
Paperback (reprint)

Seizure
Robin Cook

Power, religion, and bioscience collide in the new novel from the master of the medical thriller.

Berkley
October 2004
Featuring: Dr. Daniel Lowell; Ashley Butler
429 pages
ISBN: 0425197948
Paperback (reprint)
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Suspense

Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential Southern demagogue whose support of traditional American values includes a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies. When he's called to chair a subcommittee introducing legislation to ban new cloning technology, the senator views his political future in bold relief; and Dr. Daniel Lowell, inventor of the technique that will take stem cell research to the next level, sees a roadblock positioned before his biotech startup.

The two seemingly opposite personalities clash during the senate hearings, but the men have a common desire. Butler's hunger for political power far outstrips his concern for the unborn; and Lowell's pursuit of gargantuan personal wealth and celebrity overrides any considerations for patients' well-being. Further complicating the proceedings is the confidential news that Senator Butler has developed Parkinson's disease-leading the senator and the researcher into a Faustian pact. In a perilous attempt to prematurely harness Lowell's new technology, the therapy leaves the senator with the horrifying effects of temporal lobe epilepsy-seizures of the most bizarre order.

Torn from the headlines, Seizure is a cautionary tale for a time where biotechnology pulls us into a promising yet frightening new world.

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