Robin Cook is the pioneer that created a new category of fiction: a medical thriller, with his first novel Coma. Since then he has written 35 more. When our books landed on a "10 best" list of novels ...

Bestselling author Robin Cook started his first novel when he was in the third grade. "I only wrote it because I was disappointed with the fact that Stuart Little and Margalo never got together," he ...

The building on New York’s East Side that used to house Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital has inspired tales of horror from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and served as the model for Arkham Asylum in ...

For his 35th novel, Robin Cook chose a subject scarier than a viral outbreak or comas or bio­terrorism: doctors. “Charlatans” centers on the life of Noah Rot­hauser, the super chief resident at Boston ...

ON MARCH 18th this year, Robin Cook—former leader of the House of Commons, former foreign secretary, MP for Livingston—wrote a column for the Guardian. It concluded: “I am on Bongo Fury for the County ...

Medical thriller blockbusters make millions for the movie industry: you might know “Contagion” or “Outbreak.” But in the beginning, there was “Coma.” All are based on books by Robin Cook. “‘Coma’ made ...

Robin Cook, the first Robin Cook (not the guy who writes bestselling medical thrillers), was born in London in 1931 and died there 63 years later, suggesting an order otherwise absent in a chaotic and ...

With his thrillers, author Robin Cook typically tries to educate the public about a major scientific topic of the day. Putnam/Riverhead Publicity The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner ...

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LONDON — Robin Cook, Britain’s former foreign secretary and a key member of Tony Blair’s Labor government who resigned in 2003 in protest against the Iraq war, has died of a heart attack. He was 59.