Host

De: Robin Cook

Narrado por: George Guidall

The explosive new thriller from New York Times best-selling author and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook.

Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina’s Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death.

Devastated by Carl’s condition, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there’s more to the story than what the authorities are willing to reveal, Lynn uses all her resources at Mason-Dixon - including her initially reluctant lab partner, Michael Pender - to hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice.

What she uncovers, however, is far more disturbing. Hospitals associated with Middleton Healthcare, including the Mason-Dixon Medical Center, have unnervingly high rates of unexplained anesthetic complications and patients contracting serious and terminal illness in the wake of routine hospital admissions.

When Lynn and Michael begin to receive death threats, they know they’re into something bigger than either of them anticipated. They soon enter a desperate race against time for answers before shadowy forces behind Middleton Healthcare and their partner, Sidereal Pharmaceuticals, can put a stop to their efforts once and for all.

©2015 Robin Cook (P)2015 Penguin Audio

I've read this before...

Back in high school I read a book called Coma. The whole time I read this book "Host", I couldn't help thinking I've read this same plot before. I know it is the same author and I don't know if his other books since "Coma" are as similar as this one is, but I always felt one step ahead of what was going on. Yes, there are tense moments and it is written well for a medical mystery (a lot of medical jargon thrown in which I didn't understand all that well). And I guess if you haven't read "Coma" then you might enjoy and be surprised. I wasn't. The narrator does a fine job. I

Good Medical thriller

loved this book. great narration and a believable story. Reminded me a lot of the book Coma which has always been my favorite medical thriller.

Average, with goofy dialogue.

The medical component was interesting but the way the story played out was not particularly creative. The banter between the two main characters was pretty bad.

A story that could happen!

enjoyed this medical thriller. with these profit in the US medical and pharmaceutical system.....i am afraid this may not be too far fetched.

Reminecent of Coma.

Loved it!! Used to work in Anasthesia & Respiratory Therapy. Lots of Medical jargon that I enjoy & understand.

Amazing!

I didn't think I would enjoy the books around the 15 minute mark and I almost stopped it. However since I was on the road I decided to listen until I reached my destination. I was so happy that I did because it was hard to stop listening after that. In fact I was listening every chance I got and finished it in 3 days. Totally worth the listen; my heart was racing and there were some funny parts as well. Thanks Robin for another wonderful medical thriller!!

Rewrite of Coma with an intersectional tweak

I found the dialog between the two main characters to be a bit cringe. The black savior trope in an obvious pandering attempt only detracted from the plot. The plot was enjoyable enough but it was definitely too close to Coma’s plot. Not sure I’m sold on Guidall’s blaccent either. 😉

Narrator is just so boring

Love Cook.. have read all of his work.. was excited to listen to this book after reading it many years ago.. the narrator is just not that great.. in fact he is so boring I found myself drifting off .. so good book.. ruined by really boring and apathetic narration

Plodding

This is one story that just plodded along like a tired old donkey. More than once I certainly considered giving up on it. Normally I can get through an audiobook pretty fast. This one for a relatively short book read slllllllllllowly seemed to be like one of those 40 jour long narathon books.

Coma- circa 2015

Same old, same old.
Just write a one page op-Ed next time and save us all some time. I would certainly read THAT.